Kinks frontman Ray Davies [ tickets ] will back his just-released solo album with a round of North American concerts that kick off next month.

Davies is currently scheduled to launch the run in mid-March, and stops are so far set in nine cities, including a three-night stand in New York City and a two-night stand in Chicago. Details are included below.

The trek supports "Other People's Lives," which arrived in stores Feb. 7. The set is Davies' first proper solo album, and follows in the wake of "Thanksgiving Day," a five-song EP that the singer/songwriter issued last November.

Davies' previous non-Kinks output includes the 1985 film "Return to Waterloo," which he wrote and directed, as well as the film's soundtrack, on which he took a solo credit; and 1998's "Storyteller," a live recording of a solo-acoustic performance.

Davies wrote, produced and arranged all of the music on "Other People's Lives," which he recorded at London's Konk Studios.

"The first words on the album are 'Things are gonna change, this is the morning after,'" Davies said in a statement. "This indicates that I'm going to do things differently from now on."

A track-by-track commentary for the 13-song set is posted at Davies' website.