Singer/songwriters Jonathan Richman [ tickets ] and Vic Chesnutt [ tickets ] team up for a co-headlining tour in March, the second such outing the pair have put together in recent years.

The trek, which kicks off March 1 in Athens, GA, follows a similar 2005 run by the two singers. Current tour plans call for 17 dates in 15 cities over the first three weeks of March. Both performers will play their own sets each night during.

Richman, who gained widespread public attention following his role as musical narrator in the 1998 Farrelly Brothers' comedy "There's Something About Mary," was a founding member of the seminal new-wave group Modern Lovers in the early '70s. His most recent studio album was 2004's "Not So Much to Be Loved as to Love."

Chesnutt's latest album, "North Star Deserter," is 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. The new album hit stores last September.

In 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."