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I'll Take You There: An Oral and Photographic History of the Hines Farm Blues Club. Matthew A. Donahue. Toledo, OH: Jive Bomb Press, 1999. 136 pp.
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 of Northwest Ohio. This book is a fine addition to the subject of blues music and AfricanAmerican history.
The first chapter examines the history of blues music and its rise from house parties and juke joints of the rural South to the blues clubs of the...