Ray Davies [ tickets ] returns to North America in July for another round of acoustic shows behind his second solo album, "Working Man's Cafe."The former Kinks frontman has lined up four dates in Canada and three on the US West Coast, kicking off with a July 11 appearance at Ottawa's Bluesfest. The itinerary is included below."Working Man's Cafe," the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer's 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.
