Dwelley crosses the finish line at The Jungle on Monday, 15 April 2024.

Rougarou and the Ditrani Brothers are seen and not heard in the opening slots of the triple stack bill.

Sometimes you plan to hit a music show, sometimes you don’t.

The beautiful thing about living in a city is that you can play it by ear. Let’s say you were invited as a peripheral friend-of-friend to help hit the contractual $1,000 minimum on a bar tab at a reserved event room in Union Square, celebrating the fact that someone you never met crossed the finish line on Marathon Monday.

Let’s just suppose that.

Maybe the party dries up early and you realize that there’s a show at a music venue right around the corner, and the show still has one or two bands left in the tank? You can mosey on over there and have a listen.

No pre-planning necessary because everything’s so close together. And it works out beautifully, let’s say, because you’re a late enough arrival that the doorguy is no longer bothering to collect a cover charge.

You’ve just nicked a bit of free music at The Jungle. Did you miss most of the bill? Sure, but choose to see the glass as half full. Free drinks, free music, and you didn’t have to run 26.2 miles to enjoy any of it.

The swamp rock fiddlers strike again! It’s Rougarou.

Check out the Ditrani Brothers latest full-length Dust Harvest. Straight outta Brattleboro with the gypsy folk stylings.

In previous reviews we’ve tabbed Dwelley as ‘swamprock’. For sure, the Marathon Monday triple stack bill at The Jungle was a swampy lineup with Rougarou and the DiTrani Brothers in the mix.

That being said, the local four-piece struck the ear with poppier notes. Less heaviness, more lightness in the rhythm and melody of the performance.

The same band can sound different night to night. Sometimes it’s the setlist, sometimes it’s the mix on the PA, sometimes it’s a bit of indigestion in the listener. You never know how the sound is going to land on any given evening. That’s the wild, undomesticated beauty of live music.

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