What do you get when you combine a flat loop, a squeezebox, and a yodel? Overworked Sourdough! Sourdough Slim shows off during the "Bull-Slingers, Braggarts, & Blowhards" show at the 35th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Sourdough Slim
Paradise, CA
A performance by Sourdough Slim, a.k.a. Rick Crowder, is a hoot to say the least. This savvy performer has a gift for transporting audiences to a whimsical world where vaudevillian camp intermingles with cowboy lore, producing grins galore. Since 1988, he has gained national recognition performing at events across the country including; the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center in New York. His fast-paced stage show combines cowboy singing, award-winning yodeling, timeless humor, accompaniment on accordion, guitar, ukulele, and harmonica, and a keen knowledge of traditional western repertoire. Sourdough Slim hails from California’s gold country.

Filmed in front of a live audience at the Western Folklife Center's G Three Bar Theater in Elko, NV on Jan. 31, 2019.

This show was made possible by Wells Fargo and by the multitude of staff, artists, volunteers, and community members working behind the scenes to make this show happen.

Brought to you by the Western Folklife Center, using story and cultural expression to connect the American West to the world.
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