“(Lubet) compares Transmigrations favorably with the Beatles’ 1967 LP Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band because of its “stylistic breadth and conceptual depth.”
-Joel E. Rubin
Between Authenticity and Aestheticization
from Between Commemorization and Amnesia
::Böhlau Verlag Wien Köln Weimar 2021

"With Wolf I got the real story. I got someone who had not only been close to Schlitzie, but knew what that meant."
Bill Griffith: Nobody’s Fool: The Life and Times of Schlitzie the Pinhead Abrams Books 2019

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."

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" 

blogs.yiddish.forward.com Forverts
Translated from the Yiddish:
“Reminiscent of blues-music and the rockabilly genre, of a young Elvis Presley or Bill Haley.”

   

With Wolf... I got someone who had not only been close to Schlitzie....
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-NPR interview

Adrienne Cooper Memorial Concert. 
Dec 22, 2012 Hunter College, NYC  View Poster


 

"This is gorgeous music any way you slice it; moving, deep, sensual and full of warm humor to boot."
"The depths are so profound and rich here they defy categorization"
"It doesn't get any more alternative than Wolf Krakowski"

--ALL MUSIC GUIDE

"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