Ravin: Yeah, I’ve been playing there since I was 18. Maybe even longer than that back when I was in high school. Once or twice a year I like to do something there because it’s a good chance for all my family and high school friends to come out. It’s always been a good time.

Q: And this time around, you’ll perform with Lowell Thompson, correct?

Ravin: He’s a Burlington, Vermont, native and an amazing songwriter.

Q: Will both of you be on acoustic guitars for this UCCPA concert?

Ravin: We both play electric.

Q: Lowell wasn’t in Waylon Speed was he?

Ravin: No, he was not. He has his own project. I’ve been watching Lowell play since 2005, I think. He’s a couple of years older than me. So once I got enough songs under my belt, we started playing together. That was back in 2008. We’ve never ever had a rehearsal. It’s never been a planned thing. It’s just been thrown together.

Q: Will you each do a set of your own material and then get together at the end of the evening?

Ravin: No, it’ll be a duo set the whole time.

Q: Do you perform his material as well?

Ravin: Yeah, we just go back and forth with songs.

Q: Is Waylon Speed still together?

Ravin: I’d say it’s on hiatus.

Q: When did you move to Vermont?

Ravin: In 2003. I moved to go to school here and that was very short-lived. I moved to Burlington.

Q: Well, having listened to “County Tracks” and seeing you performed on all of the instruments, I’d say you definitely chose the right career track. You have a genuine talent as both a singer/songwriter and an instrumentalist.

Ravin: Thanks, man. I really appreciate that.

Q: I understand you are working on a new album. When will this one come out?

Ravin: I will have physical copies in my hands within a couple of weeks, but it won’t be out until the 24th of September.

Q: Does it follow along the same lines as your last one?

Ravin: Well, this one’s a little more — I don’t want to say ‘polished’ — it’s a little more tight, I’d say because with the “County Tracks” album I did everything. I played the drums first and then layered everything on top of the drums. On this one I started on acoustic guitar and a metronome, so it’s all tight. I also had a couple of other players on there. I had Mark Spencer from Son Volt on pedal steel guitar. I had a friend — Tucker Hanson — on fiddle. I had another friend playing squeeze-box. Lowell Thompson doing the harmonies. So yeah, there’s a little more diversity on there.

Q: Now will you be doing any of this new material at the Unity show?

Ravin: Absolutely, yeah. It’ll kind of be like a release show for that album honestly. I’d kind of like to bill the show as that, but I want it billed more as our duo thing rather than a Kelly-Ravin’s-new-album kind of thing.

Q: I can understand that. Well, let me close by asking my traditional end-of-the-interview question: Is there anything, Kelly — seeing that this is not a debut for you, by any stretch — that you’d like me to pass on to the folks reading this article? Oh, you said early on that you’ve played there a lot. Was that as a solo performer or with a band?

Ravin: I’ve done solo there. I’ve brought my band there. I think I might have spoken a little too much. Probably once every couple of years I play there. The last time I was there was, wow, in 2013.

Q: Was that with Waylon Speed?

Ravin: Yup, so this will be a little bit of a homecoming.

Q: Cool! So I’ll ask again: Is there anything you’d like to get across to the hometown crowd?

Ravin: Yeah. Please come to see and hear Lowell Thompson in his debut performance at the Unity College Center for the Performing Arts.