Boston indie-jazz combo The Slip will open shows on the 27-city run, which winds down in early November. The full schedule is below.

"This Storm," Kitchell's second full-length effort (following 2006's "Words Come Back to Me"), was recorded with Grammy-winning producer Malcolm Burn (Daniel Lanois, Peter Gabriel). "I wanted the experience to be the kind of thing where we all sat down with these songs and let them grow and unfold and become creatures on their own," Kitchell said in her online bio. "And that's exactly what happened."

"I want people to feel excited when they hear the album," she added. "That ecstatic, elated feeling you get when something is so good that it makes you want to listen to it over and over again. I hope to create music that has as much of an effect on others as artists like Joni Mitchell, The Beatles, Janis Joplin, and Leonard Cohen had on me. I know that's setting the bar very, very high but that's my goal."

The first single from the album, "Here to There," is currently streaming on Kitchell's MySpace page.