Singer/songwriter Howie Day [ tickets ] will preview music from his long-awaited forthcoming album during a spring tour of the US.

The trek, which is set to kick off March 6 in Boulder, CO, currently comprises 14 club/theater shows stretching from the Rocky Mountains to the Midwest to the South. In the coming weeks, more dates will be added in the Pacific Northwest and on the left and rights coasts, according to Day's most recent newsletter.

The performer has chosen intimate venues for his solo-acoustic sets, during which he'll introduce new music and play older tunes like his 2003 breakout single, "Collide."

Day has finally finished his third studio album, which has been years in the making, and he expects to release the as-yet-untitled set in the spring. His latest studio effort is 2003's "Stop All the World Now," which made it into the Top 50 on The Billboard 200. He followed that in 2005 with "Live From ..."

The track "Everyone Loves to Love a Lie" from Day's forthcoming set is streaming at his MySpace page, and another new tune, "Counting on Me," will be accessible to fan-club members next week via free download.

Day emerged from his Bangor, ME, home, made a name for himself on Boston's coffeehouse scene and was touring in support of his independently released debut by age 17. He scored gigs opening for everyone from the Wallflowers and Shawn Mullins to Remy Zero and David Gray before Epic Records snatched him up in 2002.