This Old, New, Borrowed and Blue set features Big Country, Big Thief, Lake Street Dive, the Jayhawks and a few others thrown in for kicks.

Terra Lightfoot, from Ontario, Canada, hits my ear as a cross between Melissa Etheridge and Heart.

This Playlist consists of songs I've intended to write about for a while but for whatever reason have yet to make it out of my notebook.

This Old, New, Borrowed and Blue set features Patto, Deer Tick, Dave Matthews Band (with Warren Haynes), and Elise Davis.

Calling all Black Crowes fans! Run, don’t walk, to your phone, laptop, record store — however you roll — and check out The Magpie Salute.

The Suitcase Junket is a one-man band that's equal parts folk, blues, bluegrass, and when Matt Lorenz kicks up the distortion, punk.

A.A. Bondy’s music is spare, dark and penetrating. Much of it features just Bondy on acoustic guitar singing of sadness and loss.

Bonnie Bishop has evolved from a self-described country singer trying to sell beer at Texas dance halls to a bluesy soul singer.

T Bird and the Breaks blend all kinds of styles to create what the band calls “chunk” music: equal parts funk, hip-hop, and rock ‘n’ roll.

This Old, New, Borrowed and Blue set features David Crosby, the Seratones, Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey, and the Rolling Stones.

This Playlist includes tracks from the artists featured on Fine Tuning over the blog’s first six months.

This Old, New, Borrowed and Blue set features Cory Branan, the Wood Brothers, Shovels & Rope and John Fullbright.

This Playlist consists of songs I've intended to write about for a while but for whatever reason have yet to make it out of my notebook.

This playlist, filled with songs about summer love, books, history and, of course, teenage angst, will get you fired up for back to school.

On the way to work the other day, I experienced a powerful musical juxtaposition involving Anthony D’Amato’s “Holy War.”

A staple of my teenage radio-listening days in NYC was the “Old, New, Borrowed and Blue” sets on WNEW. This iteration features all women.

In honor of Mother’s Day, I put together a rock ‘n’ roll playlist featuring all female vocalists.

To mark my 45th birthday, I created a playlist that is nothing less than a musical journey through my entire rock ‘n’ roll listening life.

To mark the start of baseball season, Fine Tuning compiled a Playlist of the Top 25 MLB Walk-Up Songs.

I was paralyzed creating this Playlist as I pondered what self-respecting Stones fan would snub “Street Fighting Man"?