AccuRadio Song Of The Day-Snarky Puppy

Artist:Snarky Puppy

Song:GO

Album:Culcha Vulcha

Snarky Puppy is a jazz fusion band successful mostly as an album and touring band. I guess they are somewhat similar to Umphrey's McGee. Snarky Puppy won a Grammy for the 2016 album Culcha Vulcha. They are an instrumental band that occasionally brings in guest singers. The leader of Snarky Puppy is bassist Michael League. He's from California but he was studying jazz at North Texas State when he formed Snarky Puppy in 2004. The band membership is fluid as guys get jobs touring with big name bands and return when the tour is over. Some of the guys who have been in Snarky Puppy since the start and are still there include Bill Laurence, Bobby Sparks and Shaun Martin on keyboards, Bob Lanzetti, Chris McQueen and Mark Lettieri on guitar, Larnelle Lewis and Robert "Sput" Searight on drums, Nate Werth on percussion and Bob Reynolds, Chris Bullock and Justin Stanton on horns. Snarky Puppy moved to New York in 2009 and signed with Ropeadope Records. They have their own label GroundUPmusic. They were distributed by Universal and they now distribute themselves. So Michael League has turned Snarky Puppy into a successful cottage industry. GO is from Snarky Puppy's 2016 album Culcha Vulcha. It won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album. League wrote half the songs including GO and he produced. Their latest album Empire Central was released in 2022. It was recorded live in Dallas. Snarky Puppy won a Grammy for this album too. Snarky Puppy is currently on tour and they are going to Europe next week. Check them out if they are coming your way. Here's Snarky Puppy performing GO for The Furious Sessions at Sol de Sants Studio in Barcelona, Spain 2018.