The Motel Swing Happy Hour on Radio KSUE

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.

Paris Cafe tunes, expatriots, and French influenced jazz and blues: France and the USA have had a long and great history of cultural exchanges

Tonight's show features just a few of the world's greatest Boogie Woogie artists, including Hadda Brooks, Camille Howard, Lloyd Glenn, Taryn Donath, and much more. Buckle up! It's TIME TO BOOGIE!!

Featuring music from King Curtis, Jackie Gleason, the KSUE studio house band, and others, to fit the many moods the pandemic brings on.

It's about walking: In the midst of our sheltering, we walk.

From the time of the Wiemar Republic in pre-Hitler Germany, in Paris and Manhattan cafes, and cabarets filled with artistes and bohemians of all kinds, all over the world, music has prevailed: Kurt Weill, Cole Porter, Bessie Smith, Edith Piaf, and much more.

"QUARANTINE," the podcast, was recorded at the studios of KSUE San Diego, March 16, 2020: Strange Brew for Strange Times.

Host Sue Palmer announces the release in podcast form of her newest album: 'GEMS volume 2', a second compilation of some of her favorite recordings over her 40 year career, as well as one recorded this year ("Oh Well," by Laura Jane Willcock}

Legendary Blues Diva Candye Kane will be inducted into the San Diego Music Hall of Fame posthumously this year. This podcast celebrates some of her beautiful, but less well known recordings.

This version of the Motel Swing Happy Hour is host Sue Palmer's personal view of some of San Diego's Jazz & Blues History 40s-70s, including Fro Brigham's Preservation Band, Preston Coleman, Jimmie Noone, Daniel Jackson, Jeannie & Jimmy Cheathem, and many more.

In celebration of Duke Ellington's 110th birthday, the Motel Swing Happy Hour features recordings from selected periods of his writing, from the Cotton Club compositions to his Sacred Concerts, featuring various artists.

"San Diego Women in Music" celebrates March and Women in History Month with many of the nominees for the 2019 San Diego Music Awards.

This Motel Swing Happy Hour celebrates some of the music America has produced out of New Orleans, and all over the world, getting ready for the Mardi Gras season.

Tonight's broadcast takes place in a small cafe, with candlelight and hints of romance, with a torch singer and a blood moon.

Nominated for Guitarist of the Year (2019) by the Blues Foundation in Memphis, the work of Laura Chavez is the subject of this Motel Swing Happy Hour Podcast.

Poetry Cocktail is the noir, beatnik version of the Motel Swing Happy Hour, with Candye Kane, Romy Kaye, Sue Palmer and much more.

This is an overview of the musical career of a colorful and talented musician: Mr. Preston Coleman.

This show features all the side men and women in the KSUE Motel Swing Orchestra.

Recordings of some of the many international Boogie Woogie stars Sue has played with, all over the world.

Sue's Motel Swing Happy Hour features various recordings of Molly Stone and Sue Palmer and gives an overall picture of their influence on each other, and others.

Sue is featuring select musician friends on her show, Janell Rock / Seattle, including Del Rey, Jo Miller, Ray Skhelbred