Greensky Bluegrass

Kalamazoo's Greensky Bluegrass announced it will release its fifth studio album, "If Sorrows Swim," on Sept. 9.

(Chris Monaghan)

KALAMAZOO, MI --

recently announced it will release its fifth studio album, "If Sorrows Swim," on Sept. 9.

The 12-track project will be distributed nationally by

, a Nashville, Tenn.-based entertainment company founded in 2002 by Grammy Award-winning producer David Macias and Deb Markland.

Greensky Bluegrass -- mandolinist and songwriter Paul Hoffman, dobro player Anders Beck, banjoist Michael Arlen Bont, guitarist and songwriter David Bruzza, and bassist Michael Devol -- will be touring the country throughout the summer, including at several major festivals. Rolling Stone magazine listed Greensky Bluegrass as one of the

at the Summer Camp Music Festival on May 23-25 in Chillicothe, Ill.

The band is slated to perform in Kalamazoo at

.

“There’s this great duality to what we do,” mandolinist, vocalist, and songwriter Paul Hoffman said in a press release. “We’re existing in a few different places at once: we’re a bluegrass band and a rock band, we’re song-driven and interested in extended improvisation.”

Here is the track listing, with the author's name in parenthesis:

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