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Typically, "alt-country" means the band sounds like Nashville (sliding guitar, twanging vocals) but doesn't look like it (no big hair or cowboy shirts). But there's a big country out there and there are plenty of alternatives. Take the Upland Breakdown Tour (named for the Wyoming festival these rural radicals play annually). The hokey, jokey wiseasses may very much look the part of an old-timey mountain jugband, but at heart they're more like punk rockers. Beneath the cloud of weed and the slackjawed schtick, sound experimentalists Grandpa's Ghost (pictured), David Lightbourne's bluesy bluegrass Stop & Listen Boys and Texas Celtic jam band Spot groove and sputter with a sound as vast as the big sky country.
Upland Breakdown Tour, Sun., Jan. 12, 9 p.m., call for cover, with Grandpa's Ghost, Spot and The Stop & Listen Boys, The Khyber, 56 S. Second St., 215-238-5888.
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