ENTERTAINMENT | By Ojai Concert Series

Last Of The Vaudeville Cowboys

Sourdough Slim is a hoot to say the least. The moment this award winning Western showman steps into the spotlight, it’s apparent to everyone that they’re in for a rollicking good time.

This week, the Ojai Concert Series hosted Sourdough Slim at the Ojai Valley Women’s Club.

“There’s no one else out there like Sourdough Slim. An accordion playing, yodeling, tongue-in-cheek, cowboy-dressed entertainer deluxe. Catchy, uplifting, irresistible, jolly fun.” says Cowboy Magazine editor Darrell Arnold. One of the most original and beloved Western entertainers of our time,

Sourdough Slim is a hoot to say the least. The moment this award winning Western showman steps into the spotlight, it’s apparent to everyone that they’re in for a rollicking good time.

Ten gallon funny-man Sourdough Slim, transports us to a whimsical world where vaudevillian camp and cowboy lore intermingle to produce grins galore. Slim, aka Rick Crowder, is a well traveled veteran of stages ranging from The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering to The Lincoln Center’s Roots of American Music Festival and the Carnegie Hall Folk Festival.

His fast-paced stage show finds him crooning Western classics, playing accordion, guitar and harmonica, dancing a jig, dishing out hilarious comedic sketches and letting loose with some absolutely mind boggling yodeling. His truly astounding yippie-ti-yi style won him the Academy of Western Artists 2001 Will Rogers Award for “Yodeler of the Year” and 2009, 2010 and 2011 nomination for “Entertainer of the Year” from the Western Music Association.

For this tour he was accompanied by Robert Armstrong as they transport you to a whimsical world where vaudevillian camp intermingles with cowboy legend, sure to tickle your funny bone.

The East Bay Express calls him “The most entertaining cowboy singer-yodeling-accordionist on the planet”