Written and filmed by Ross Mehan
Sour Slim Documentary 2011(updated)

Sourdough Slim will be the featured performer on May 17, 2015 for the San Francisco Accordion Club. He is known as a “one man Western extravaganza,” crooning Western classics, playing accordion, guitar and harmonica, dancing a jig, dishing out hilarious comedic sketches and letting loose with award winning yippie-ti-yi-yodeling. “Slim is popular at cowboy gathers and county fairs.

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.



The Allentown Morning Call proclaims him to be a “One-man Western extravaganza!” The East Bay Express calls him “The most entertaining cowboy singer-yodeler-accordionist extant!” The Newport News Review brandishes him “The W. C. Fields of Western Entertainment” and Via Magazine heralds him “Entertainer extraordinaire!”



Born in Hollywood, California, Rick Crowder spent much of his childhood on a family cattle ranch in the Sierra foothills. But as he explains, “my true calling as a cowboy was not on the range but rather, on the stage.” A childhood cut-up, he developed his comic character, honed his musical and yodeling skills and garnered the nick name “Slim” while performing in several traveling western bands in the 1970’s and 80’s.

Sourdough Slim emerged in 1988 when he came up with the idea to meld his experiences into a solo act based on a comical accordion playing yodeling cowhand. He has never looked back. 


Future performances include:
MAY 2015 

1, 2 Genoa Cowboy Festival, downtown, Genoa, NV
17 San Francisco Accordion Club concert, Oyster Point Yacht Club, S. San Francisco, CA 2:00 PM
25 Memorial Day Bar-B-Q, Roseleaf Commons, Chico, CA 11 AM

JUNE 2015

6 Country Faire, Patrick Ranch Museum, Midway, Durham, CA, noon,
11 Pioneer Hall, Wheatland, CA 7:30 PM 530-633-9334 

17 Feather Canyon, Paradise, CA 6:30 PM 
18 El Dorado County Fair, Placerville, CA 12:45, 2:00, 4:00 PM
19 Hilltop Commons, Grass Valley, CA 11:30 AM 

19 Squaw Valley Chapel, Olympic Village, CA 4 PM

26 Rodeo Concert, fairgrounds, Fallon, NV 6 PM

For further information: Sourdoslim@aol.com
Phone: 530-872-1187