CLAREMORE -- As a youngster growing up east of Locust Grove, Sam O'Field remembers going out to the bean fields to do a day's picking to make extra money. That was a few years before he picked up a ...

A good fiddle part elevates a song: It can take a ballad from mediocre to weepy and a bluegrass jig from ho-hum to barn-burning. It's one of the most prominent instruments in country music, and it's a ...