The Citizen

Considering the wide swath of musical styles it plays, Dovetail Joint is faintly surprised by the equally wide makeup of its audiences.

“All kinds of people come to our shows,” said the group’s singer and guitarist Miss E. “It’s funny to see the combination of lawyers and bikers hanging out, but I appreciate it.”

Miss E also writes all of the group’s original material. She is joined on bass by Paul Carpenter — with whom she has played for nine years — and on drums by Dan Redmond. Together the trio performs rock, blues, funk, jazz and other styles ranging in influence from the Beatles to Nirvana. They lean toward covers, but play an ample amount of Miss E’s compositions as well.

The Syracuse band sticks to setting off central New York venues into a dancing mood, though Miss E has performed up and down the east coast and even opened for Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Landmark Theatre in 2005. For now, she and Dovetail Joint are content to rock “wherever they’ll have us,” she said.

“We’re all the energy of (Jimi) Hendrix and Janis Joplin with a little bit of a funky undertone to it,” Miss E said. “We all enjoy what we’re doing very much. If we didn’t, we wouldn’t be playing.”

David Wilcox

253-5311 ext. 245

david.wilcox@lee.net

If you go.

Who: Dovetail Joint

When: 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 9

Where: Bear Bones Bar-B-Que, 83 Wall St., Auburn

Cost: No cover

Info: Call 25-BONES