They’re real people, Phoenix’s Tylissa Wagner, 32, said. Aside from the tight artist-fan relationship, Wagner said, the sound of Roger Clyne the Peacemakers is real-life music’” you can just relax to it. Other fans love the variety of musical styles and strong songwriting. Some people find (the music) multifaceted. Some people find just entertainment, Clyne said. Some other people find messages that are more artistic, more personal. It really depends on the listener, and that’s how I like it.

I don’t want it to be just one thing. Playing twice a year in Mexico, Clyne said, has more to do with authenticity than vacationing. So many of the characters I lean on in songwriting are the heroes and villains who pass so fluidly back and forth across the border, he said. I just want to be able to walk our talk. Naffah said he was more than skeptical when Clyne initially came to him about wanting to do a concert in Mexico. I was like, this thing is never going to fly, Naffah said.

At this last show, the band played an afternoon pre-show sound check as beer-toting fans cheered, shouted requests and danced around the fenced venue ‘” an open-air dirt lot next to a bar called Sunset Cantina. Brendt Tuttle watched from the outside with friends. The 44-year-old from Tempe said he’d been to at least 50 shows dating to Clyne’s days with The Refreshments in the mid-’90s.

Though the group and its followers are associated with the Southwest, Clyne said Peacemakers culture is alive across the country, from New York to California. The band covers a lot of ground through the year, bringing its music to the faithful. In the weeks leading up to the Rocky Point show, the band pushed across the country with a demanding tour schedule that started at the House of Blues at Disneyland on Aug. 31, and included places like the B.B.