I have this recording somewhere in the stacks that I had hoped to document. Anyway, in the recording notes, W.C. Handy, who was then blind, says that Louis played it very well, (something like that) and Louis said, something to the effect that "Mr. Handy, you wrote it so well that the notes just played themselves." The recording also has an aside when Louis told a joke about growing up in Louisiana, "and my momma told me to go to the river and draw some water, and they was this alligator there, and I told my momma, and she said, Louis, that alligator is as afraid of you as you is of him, and I said, mamma, if that alligator is as afraid of me as I is of him, then that water ain't fit to drink."