Her playing style is based in the Texas and Chicago blues traditions, both classic and modern genres.

This led her mother to cancel the arrangement, and Laura did not play the instrument again until she was in her early teenage years.

[2] She found another teacher based in Palo Alto, California, and with her parents buying her an Ibanez electric guitar, she restarted her musical education.

She was aged 18 and too young to attend but, after a hesitant beginning, she went every week and became the guitarist for the house band at the jam, and ended up playing professionally alongside Price for eight years.

[10][11] Chavez had known Nikki, and her then future husband, Matt Hill, for about ten years and it was a seamless transition.

[5] In the same year, Chavez played guitar on Vanessa Collier's album, Meeting My Shadow, which was released on Ruf Records.

To round out the twelve months for Chavez, Guitar Player magazine cover featured her as one of the "50 Sensational Female Guitarists.

She also took part in the Blues Caravan tour again and added a few music festival appearances across North America.

"[5] She collaborated with Big Daddy Wilson, a North Carolina born singer, who has been living in Germany for several decades.

[11] Chavez had some touring activity early in 2020, when she undertook a short foray in Russia with fellow San Diego musician, Whitney Shay.

The COVID-19 pandemic led Chavez down a different route when she decided to busk on the streets in Little Italy, San Diego, a marked change to her usual schedule of 250 concerts a year.

[8] In addition to her involvement in recording mentioned above, and in the discography below, Chavez has had a hand in albums with the Lucky Losers, Jade Bennett, Ina Forsman, Lindsay Beaver, and Katarina Pejak.