Ray Davies [ tickets ] will mount a brief solo outing later this spring in support of his latest studio effort, last year's "Working Man's Cafe."

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and former Kinks frontman kicks off the tour March 28 in San Francisco; after a pair of California shows, the seven-city trek heads east for the remainder of Davies' appearances. Dates are below.

"Working Man's Cafe," only Davies' second album as a solo artist, was recorded last year in Nashville, TN, and co-produced by Grammy-winning studio veteran Ray Kennedy (Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle). An edited version of the disc (minus two bonus tracks and liner notes) was given away in October with 1.5 million copies of the Sunday Times newspaper in the UK.

The deluxe US version of the album, released Feb. 19, contains four extra bonus tracks and a separate DVD that includes a Davies short film about his 2001 "Storyteller" tour.

Davies' previous studio effort was 2006's "Other People's Lives."

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; 1998's "Storyteller," a live recording of a solo-acoustic performance; and last year's "Thanksgiving Day," a five-song EP.