This podcast features the latest EP recording of Sue Palmer & Her Motel Swing Orchestra, "Movin' Along,", with discussion on songs, other artists, and cultural happenings that influenced the album process.

This podcast consists of just a few of the many piano players who have inspired me over the years: Katie Webster, Sweet Emma Barrett, Marcia Ball, Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson, Rockhouse Annie, Tresse Turner, and more.

Bebop, beatniks, wayout voices, sidestreet clubs as well as Carnegie Hall prevailed; Fifty Second Street was filled with hipsters having drinks and listening to jazz; Midtown, Greenwich Village, and Harlem were filled with musicians like Bud Powell, Thelonius Monk, Marian McPartland, Mary Lou Williams, Blossom Dearie, King Pleasure, Bobby Short, and many more.

Country KSUE explores Sue's introduction to Country and Western music, featuring Deford Bailey, Ray Charles, Hazel&Alice, Mrs. Etta Baker, The Quebe Sisters, The Pointer Sisters, Buck Owens, Jo Miller, and many more.

As I continue to explore my VINYL collection, this podcast explores the 30's transitional period between Ragtime Jazz and Bebop and Rhythm & Blues: the 30s Swing Era. Artists featured include Fletcher Henderson, John Kirby, Harlem Hamfats, Muggsy Spanier, Sidney Bechet, Jack Teagarden,Lil Johnson, Victoria Spivey, Lucille Hegemin, Hannah Sylvester, Buddy Tate, Tiny Grimes, Cats and the Fiddle, Preston Coleman, Candye Kane, and more.

"VINYL: The 2nd Shelf," continues to explore the artists I discovered in my 20s, when cultural changes were happening in many areas: Cannonball Adderley, Archie Shepp, Meg Christian, Gwen Avery, Teresa Trull, The Pointer Sisters, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Charles Lloyd, Joanne Brackeen, and many more.

Due to great new technology, I have rediscovered my vinyl collection from the late '60s, '70s, and early '80s! This first vinyl podcast has become a tribute to a few women who had long and wonderful careers in music: Valaida Snow, Marion McPartland, Una Mae Carlisle, Mary Osborn, Vi Redd, Vi Burnside, Kathy Stobart, Dottie Dodgion, Lynn Milano, Sarah Lawler, and Lil Hardin Armstrong.

Sue's Halloween show features some of San Diego's scariest jazz and blues musicians. WATCH OUT!!!

"Conversations with Charles McPherson" gives an insight into the artistic process of a living jazz legend, who has known the world class jazz world for over 60 years, remembering Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and the countless other icons he has played with, while sitting in the San Diego neighborhood of Talmadge and talking with Sue Palmer about his new album JAZZ DANCE SUITES.

MINGUS, the podcast, gives a short overview of the career of the brilliant jazz recordings and compositions of the volatile Charles Mingus, including compositions with other artists, in an era rife with angst.