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Illinois
Illinois...the band
Riding on a tractor of six strings, banjo samples and a metaphor comes Illinois, a band from Bucks County, Pennsylvania whose music conveys the Hopper/Rockwell-esque imagery of their home, a timeless place of raw emotion, where little league children still ride their bicycles in the street and the first girl you kissed is now your wife.
In 2001, Chris Archibald began recording ideas so he wouldn't forget them, oddly enough they turned into the songs we love and were kept as they are, one take beauties. He'd been playing in bands with serial bass cabinet-smasher Martin Hoeger for some time, but had never put together the ideal group to play his hundred-plus song catalog. The two convinced long time friend JP Kuyper to drop what he was doing and get on the bus. He did, and now he drives it. Dru Lee was picked up off the side of the road and he adds a lot of...
