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CRITIC’S PICK

COWBOY NATION: The music of Chip and Tony Kinman runs like a dusty river through a quarter century of Southwestern music. The brothers fronted antediluvian L.A. punk band the Dils, then invented alt-country in Rank & File. In the late ‘80s they rode the psychedelic-fuzz wave in the underrated duo Blackbird. Then they took their strange mix of innovation and purism to the wide-open range in Cowboy Nation, a minimalist take on the cowboy songs genre that conjures tumbleweeds and star-dark skies.

(Mustang Stage, 1:50 p.m. Saturday)

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