Singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt [ tickets ] has lined up another round of dates with Elf Power, who back the singer on his latest studio release, "Dark Developments."

Chesnutt and his band--Athens, GA, natives all--hit the western US last month. The next leg covers the eastern and southern parts of the country, kicking off Jan. 21 in Chapel Hill, NC. The 15-date trek circles around to finish up back in Athens in early February. Dates are below.

Recording as The Amorphous Strums, Chesnutt and Elf Power recorded "Dark Developments" in the singer's home studio over the last two years.

"It was a really fun way to do a record," Elves' co-founder Andrew Rieger recently told culture mag Venuszine about working with Chesnutt on the album, which hit stores in October. "Basically, Vic would come in with a song, and we'd run through it about four or five times, and then we'd record it and move on. So it was like an instinctual, first-take thing, which was cool because that's usually not a way that we ever work. We usually do a million overdubs and take forever, so it was nice to do a recording where you have to think fast and move on."

"Dark Developments" follows last fall's "North Star Deserter," which was the singer's 11th full-length studio release 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.