Tom Drake & Undiscovered Country performs at Lear's Main St., Grill

Undiscovered Country (“Undisco” to fans) is a Moscow, Idaho-based band playing alt-country and folk-rock built around singer-songwriter Tom Drake’s originals. Born in the ancestral stomping grounds of Merle Haggard, John Steinbeck and Woody Guthrie, and raised all over the USA, Drake crafts songs to leap the canyon between the heart and head, the poet and roadhouse, the grapes of wrath, the red mud Mississippi back roads and the old West. These are often toe-tapping, boot shuffling songs anchored in carefully crafted lyrics and the superb musicianship of multi-instrumentalist Cris Peterson. Wallowa region locals may recognize Peterson from his work with both Janis Carper or Corn Mash. With veteran regional musicians Doug Park on up-right and electric bass and Doug Lopes on drums, the band has the experience, talent and chops to carve out a sound that is both original and familiar.