During an interview midway through Harrison's 1974 North American tour with Ravi Shankar, band leader Tom Scott described "Sue Me, Sue You Blues" as having been a certain inclusion in the setlist from the start of rehearsals, along with "What Is Life", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and Lennon's Beatles-era composition "In My Life". Harrison gave "Sue Me, Sue You Blues" a new musical arrangement, the track "reborn as horn-driven funk", Leng writes, via the all-American rhythm section of Willie Weeks and Andy Newmark, and Scott's three-piece horn section. In a feature article for "Rolling Stone" that otherwise savaged the opening West Coast portion of the Harrison–Shankar tour, Ben Fong-Torres wrote approvingly of its inclusion while bemoaning the paucity of other "familiar Beatles or Harrison songs" in the setlist.