I'll Take You There

In this history in words and pictures, Donahue explores one of America's unique African-American Cultural Centers, Hines Farm, located in a rural African-American enclave west of Toledo in Northwest Ohio. The blues club, Hines Farm, was founded by Frank and Sarah Hines in the early 1940s and operated from its inception until the early 1970s. Many traveling blues acts, including Eddie Kirkland, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed, Bo Bo Jenkins, Big Jack Reynolds, Little Johnnie Taylor and Freddie King regularly worked at this venue, as well as jazz musicians including Count Basie and Gene Ludwig. Hines Farm also hosted numerous events for the local black motorcycle club the Atomic Pirates. This book is a breath of fresh air covering an obviously neglected, but never-the-less interesting and important piece of postwar blues history. It is a fine addition to the subject of blues music and African-American history.

Copies of I'll Take You There: An Oral and Photographic History of the Hines Farm Blues Club are available by mail through special arrangement with Jive Bomb Press from: The University of Toledo, Urban Affairs Center, Mail Stop 404, 2801 W. Bancroft St., Toledo, OH 43606. Copies are $15.00 plus $1.35 for postage and handling. Make checks payable to: University of Toledo Foundation.

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