VIDEO OF THE DAY: “SOMETHING MAY CATCH FIRE” BY CHUCK RAGAN

In his foreword to the 2012 book The Road Most Traveled, consisting of stories of life on the road by dozens of musicians, singer-songwriter Chuck Ragan wrote, “Despite the joy I have for playing music, despite the camaraderie that I surround myself with on the road, and despite traversing this planet, I do look forward to the end of the trail and taking off these boots.” Fortunately, the former member of Hot Water Music and the man behind the Revival Tour is not hanging up that footwear just yet. The folk troubadour, who has released a series of solo records, is now set to debut his first album with his band the Camaraderie, Till Midnight (SideOneDummy, March 25). Produced, engineered, and mixed by Blind Melon guitarist Christopher Thorn, the album features such songs as “Non Typical,” “Vagabond,” “Something May Catch Fire,” and “Bedroll Lullaby,” recorded with Lucero’s Todd Beene on electric guitar and pedal steel, Social Distortion’s David Hidalgo Jr. on drums, Jon Gaunt on fiddle, and Joe Ginsberg on bass, aka the Camaraderie. The group will be at Irving Plaza on April 18 with the White Buffalo and Jonny Two Bags; one dollar from each ticket and package purchase goes to the Wildlands Network, whose mission “is to ensure a healthy future for nature and people in North America by scientifically and strategically connecting networks of people restoring and protecting networks of wildlands.”