“Wolf” Crescenze began playing bass with various bands in the DC area during the garage band era of the 60s,
most notably with Sassafras Tea.
More recently,
he has been seen onstage performing with Pinetop Perkins, Guitar Shorty, Zac Harmon, Tab Benoit, The Nighthawks' Mark Wenner,
Frederic Yonnet, Steve Guyger, Ruby Hayes, Linwood Taylor, Bret Littlehales, Memphis Gold, Daryl Davis, Steve "Baby Jake"
Jacobs, Robert Frahm, Matt Kelley, Nadine Rae, Clarence “The Bluesman” Turner, Rusty Bogart, Mike Westcott, Wave
Milor, Andy Hamburger, Bill "The Wandering Greek" Pappas, Joe Wells, Mark Stutso, Pete Ragusa, Tom Maxwell, Lisa
Lim, Andy Poxon, Paul Pfau, Zach Sweeney, Michael Tash, Fast Eddie, The Skyla Burrell Band, Hot Rods & Old Gas, The Idle
Americans, ACME Blues Company, One Bad Jack and DrMove. Presently, besides gigging with his regular projects--Big Boy Little Band, Still Standing and Along
for the Ride--he hosts numerous open blues jams in the Northern Virginia, DC and Annapolis areas with his jam band, "Still
Standing." Besides music, over the years, Wolf’s interests include building, painting and
driving street rods and custom motorcycles. He is also considered one of the top carousel restoration artists in the
country, having restored over 400 figures. www.carouselrestorations.com He has a large Coca-Cola and country store memorabilia collection, as well as an ever-growing collection of left-handed
Fender basses. Stay tuned here
for pictures of various collections.
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