Complex sentence: The band began branching out in 1987, and 1988 playing dates around the southeast and nearby towns such as Athens, Georgia, where they traded off Monday shows at the Uptown Lounge with jam band heavyweights Widespread Panic.
Split into simpler sentences: The band began branching out in 1987, and 1988 playing dates around the southeast and nearby towns such as Athens, Georgia. Where they traded off Monday shows at the Uptown Lounge with jam band heavyweights Widespread Panic.