I've been doing a pre-1923 arrangement of Handy's "Hesitating Blues" (published 1915) for a public domain/original material only gig. The band recorded in 1918 included King Oliver and a young Louis Armstrong. (Might be one of Kid Ory's bands; I need to do better at documentation.)

Am finding I actually like the old approach better than the Rev Gary Davis & Hot Tuna versions I learned on guitar in my teens. The dynamic & the structure are very similar except the pivotal chords at the beginning of each verse are Cdim to C insteada Am to E7; that classic riff that climbs up from the 3rd note of the scale (in this case E) and down to the 7 (Bb) is note-for-note exactly what Jorma played circa 1969-70. But in the 1918 version a few horns get together to pop that riff out front during each verse. For the lyrics I did a mix of verses drawn from Handy's* version and the Smythe/Middleton/Gillham version, also published in 1915.

*Handy openly shared that he got the kernel of Hesitating Blues from an older traditional song.