Singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt [ tickets ] has lined up a headlining club tour this fall behind a new record made with a little help from some old friends.

The Athens, GA, institution will kick off the tour Oct. 29 in Oxford, MS, with the trek set to hit 20 additional cities through late November. Details are below.

Chesnutt will be paired on the tour with Athens neighbors Elf Power, who back the singer on his most recent studio release, "Dark Developments." The nine-track set, which was recorded last winter in Chesnutt's home studio, is scheduled to hit the streets Oct. 14.

Chesnutt's previous album, last fall's "North Star Deserter," was the singer's 11th full-length studio album in a recording career that dates back to 1990's "Little," which was produced by Chesnutt's most ardent celebrity backer at the time, R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe.

Last October, Chesnutt participated--along with Natalie Merchant, Ryan Adams and other musicians--in Cowboy Junkies' album and film "Trinity Revisited," a 20th anniversary re-recording of the Canadian band's most celebrated album, 1988's "The Trinity Session."

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