David Bowie “Sue (Or In a Season of Crime)” b/w “’Tis a Pity She Was a Whore” and “Sue (Or In a Season of Crime-Radio Edit)” 2014, Record Store Day exclusive limited release on Columbia Legacy. This upcoming Saturday, April 22nd, is Record Store Day 2017 so I’ll try to spin some other exclusive releases leading up to that “holiday.” This 10″ supposedly had a limited release of 5,000 but ours is numbered 5198 so I’m guessing they pressed more.

Bowie originally released “Sue (Or In a Season of Crime)” as his lead single from the 2014 comp Nothing Has Changed and re-recorded both that track and “’Tis a Pity She Was a Whore” for 2016′s Blackstar. “Sue” is a mournfully orchestrated jazz number with a wall of horns that won the 2016 Grammy for the Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals category, awarded to the song’s arranger and conductor, Maria Schneider. “’Tis a Pity She Was a Whore” has been described as “a raucous five-minute mesh of melody and discord, an art-rock anti-war romance, gasping under the pack-ice of no-wave sax-squawk.“ (Bowie plays the sax part on this recording; on Blackstar the sax is performed by Donny McCaslin. It’s no 80′s-style sax, very avant-gaurde and boisterous.