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(MUSIC--MINSTRELSY.) BLAND, JAMES A. Three pieces of original music: In the Evening by the Moonlight * In the Morning by the Bright Light * Oh My Brother. Usual 2-3 pages of music and lyrics, with pictorial engraved covers; stitching at the spine perished; some dark toning and shallow closed tears to the first piece, the second and third lightly toned. New York: Hitchcock and Boston: Perry, 1880
James A. Bland (1854-1911) was given a gift of a second-hand banjo at the age of 12, and was performing professionally by the age of 14. He attended primary school in Washington, D.C. and graduated from Howard University in 1873. Over the period of his lifetime, Bland composed over 700 songs, among them "Carry me Back to Old Virginny," "Oh Dem Golden Slippers", and many others that have crossed racial lines to become part of America's rich musical heritage.
