Lawrence Peters is the hardest-working country musician in Chicago

Lawrence Peters is the hardest-working country musician in Chicago
Flickr/Scott Judd
Lawrence Peters is the hardest-working country musician in Chicago
Flickr/Scott Judd

Lawrence Peters is the hardest-working country musician in Chicago

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Lawrence Peters plays in 50 country bands, performs more than 3,000 gigs a month and knows every single country record (real country, not the slick stuff) ever recorded.

OK, a bit of an exaggeration.  But the guy really is all over the city celebrating and performing the music he loves.

Lawrence just released his debut CD, What You Been Missin’, and he stopped by The Hideout (where he also tends bar) to perform two songs and talk about the music he loves.

Check it out …