Beyond Klezmer: Redefining Jewish Music for the Twenty-First Century
(Jeffrey Janeczko, Doctoral Dissertation / Ethnomusicology / UCLA 2009)
"Krakowski's music then, while steeped in traditional Jewish material and a multitude of American genres, lives wholly in the present through his own personal history."

All Music Guide
"The depths are so profound and rich here they defy categorization"
"It doesn't get any more alternative than Wolf Krakowski"

The Real Yiddishe Blues: Rainlore's World of Music
"A highly personal, striking modern idiom that successfully blends
blues, R & B, folk-rock, country-rock and more."

RootsWorld
"A unique modern-day Yiddish troubador, who is a unique Jewish stylist for the ages" 

 

Released August 26, 2008
Rough Guide to Klezmer Revolution  
Compilation includes:
Friling (Springtime) by Wolf Krakowski
 

"Krakowski is the finest practitioner of Yiddish music anywhere. A native Yiddish speaker, for him the world of East European Jewish culture is very much alive and contemporary - something he demonstrates brilliantly in the style of his music and the richness of the lyrics."

--PROF. JACK KUGELMASS, Director
  Centre for Jewish Studies
  University of Florida
 

"The only modern recordings of Yiddish songs sung as though they actually mean something."

--MIKE AYLWARD, Discographer
 

"Wolf Krakowski is the Johnny Cash of Yiddish music."

--HASIDIC MUSICIAN, Blog in Dm
 

"We think of a Neil Young who would visit the synagogue"

 --TZADIKOLOGY
   (Translated from the French)
 

"Possesses one of the most unique voices in Jewish music, somewhere in-between Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen"

--DAN ROSENBERG, Producer:
  Rough Guide to Klezmer 
  Revolution
 

"A kind of Yiddish Willie Nelson"

--THE FORWARD

"A depth of passion and commitment one rarely sees from ANY performer in any genre"

--SETH ROGOVOY
  Author: The Essential Klezmer,
  and
  Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet