The Handsome Family at McCabe’s Guitar Shop

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The Handsome Family may be the best country act that you’ve never heard on mainstream country radio. The husband-wife duo of Brett and Rennie Sparks specialize in the sort of dark, yet wryly funny tales that sound best backed by an acoustic guitar or a pedal steel twang. While albums such as 2000’s “In the Air” put the group on the map with vivid songcraft, its most recent release “Scattered” puts songs by Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and the Beatles through the Handsome Family’s warped lens. McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. Sat., 8 p.m. $15 https://www.mccabes.com.