Thanks for the replies everyone.

I found WC Handy's biography on-line. Very interesting.

He gives a version of the bluegrass song Two Dollar Bill known also as Long Journey Home from 1892. The version known as High Sheriff or in one early recording as "Deadheads and Suckers" I believe by Wade Ward or probably his father Hines. That's the earliest version I've heard of.

Also he prints a version of Sail Away Ladies that Uncle Dave Macon later recorded (and later came a pop version by Van Morrison) that he got from his uncle Whit. Great stuff.

We still don't have Handy's folk version of Careles Love or the complete Loveless Love. I'm not sure I can transcribe the 4th verse from the UTube recording.

Any more help would be appreciated. We're close.

Richie