Rod Stewart [ tickets ] will return to the US for a tour set to launch February 12th in Nashville, Tennessee. The 40-date itinerary posted to the singer's web site focuses primarily on the southern and midwest portions of the country, and will play arenas at all stops.

Stewart was forced to postpone the second to last date of his UK tour on Sunday after suffering a bout of laryngitis. The show, at Manchester's Evening News Arena, was moved to Tuesday, according to a BBC report. From there, Stewart is expected to rest until the US tour begins.

When We Were The New Boys, enjoyed strong radio support in the US among classic rock stations when it was released in early June alongside a media blitz that included a series of Stewart performances along the Sunset Strip that featured full band live sets performed at the landmark Tower Records Sunset parking lot, at the Roxy and at the Whisky.

In a roundup of top-grossing US tours for 1998, Pollstar reports that Stewart pulled in $21.6 million. In major markets, top tickets prices on his 1998 run, which played mostly outdoor amphitheatres, were as high as $125. As with the recent Rolling Stones round of ticket sales, the added premium appeared to have little effect on ticket sales volume.

Here's the current itinerary for Rod Stewart's 1999 US tour: