Joe Bourdet- "Illinois"

Joe Bourdet recasts Dan Fogelberg’s “Illinois,” trading its Midwestern melancholy for a California cool that elevates a country-rock dollar-bin fixture into something much more stylish. With Justin Smith’s assured drumming and Catfish Connor Gallaher’s yearning pedal steel, Bourdet preserves the song’s sense of haunted homecoming, but filters it through the lens of his own displacement, returning to familiar ground after being priced out of Southern California.