Wolf Krakowski Discography of CDs

Wolf Krakowski music CDs For those familiar with the work of Kinky Friedman when he was a musician, this is another, much weirder step in that direction. Wolf Krakowski and the Lonesome Brothers issued Transmigrations: Gilgul on their own label in 1996, only to have it reissued by John Zorn in the Radical Jewish Culture series. Radical is right. Here are ten songs, all country & western blues tunes (an almost totally forgotten music) played recklessly and drunkenly with great musicianship and sung almost entirely in Yiddish (an almost totally forgotten language). Tales of loss, loss, and more loss anchored with tunes of broken desire, displacement, and solemn regret crossed with an absolute resignation. "Why worry and fret when everything goes up in smoke," one song intones. Another is of ten brothers, all who ply different trades and are killed off verse by verse in a sort of "100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" fashion. The lament "Warsaw" is as heartbreaking as any country song of displacement and longing, and fills the listener ...

Wolf Krakowski discography Track Listing of songs: Blasting in the Everlasting; Emotional Problems; Carnival Song; Unbounded; Boogie in Motion; Head 'Em Off At the Pass; Five-Cent Me; Well, My Heart; Aches and Pains; The Power;

Wolf Krakowski songs After Wolf Krakowski's last outing, the stunning Transmigrations: Gilgul, he and his band, the Lonesome Brothers, took country music to the extreme margins of integration, where it met blues and traditional Yiddish music in a swirl of loss, longing, and celebrations of holiday foods. This time out, Krakowski branches out even further to mine the deep vein of musical cultures from all over the world -- reggae, tango -- without losing his beautifully mystifying meld of traditional Yiddish folk melodies or American country and folk-blues. Had ...