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Canadian TV sitcom features Sourdough Slim music
The wildly popular and hip Canadian sitcom "House Party" has contracted with Sourdough Slim to use his fabulous, self-penned classic "I Just Yodel My Troubles Away" in they're upcoming season.
The song is scheduled to be featured in at least one episode and possibly in the end credits of five more. Those Canadians are obviously at the forefront of cool new trends. In any case we're happy to add a new dimension of fun.
Stay tuned for more.
New CD In The Works
On the heels of last years tremendously popular "Classics" CD comes "Classics II". "Classics II" will feature more of the classic cowboy hits that made the first one such a must have CD. Song titles so far include; "Rawhide", "Chimebells Yodel", "Ridin' Down The Canyon",
"Navajo Trail", "Silver On The Sage", "Rancho Grande" and "Twilight On The Trail." These gems come alive again with the unique treatment of the Doughmeister. Look for a late summer, early fall release date.
Shot By World Famous Photographer
In October, Sourdough Slim found himself in Los Angeles in the studios of world famous celebrity photographer Vern Evans. Evans has been the artist behind the camera in photo shoots with some of the biggest celebrities and stars of Hollywood and beyond. Some of his clients include
Forbes Magazine, Disney, Sony, Turner Broadcasting and HBO to name a few. He just finished up an exciting shoot with Harrison Ford in conjunction with the new Indiana Jones movie. Check out these exciting new photos on the "Photo Page" of this website.
For more on the photographic artistry of Vern Evans go to: www.vernevansphoto.com
Summer & Fall Roundup of Performances 2008
When not working on his new CD, Sourdough will be traveling the country this summer and fall giving folks a show packed with plenty of humor, yodeling and classic cowboy music. Some of the highlights include; The Nevada County Fair,
Gravenstein Apple Fair, Minnesota State Fair and a rare appearance with the Saddle Pals in Concord in August. Five Harvest Festival and Fire On The Mountain craft & music festivals, Eiteljorg, Heber City, Monterey and Elko cowboy festivals, The Draft Horse Classic and the annual Christmas extravaganza at the Sutter Creek Theatre, and more this fall and winter.
Sure hope you can make it to some of these fun events and share a few laughs and tunes with us.
Check out the "Tour Dates" page of this website for a complete listing of all the exciting up coming performances.
New Website
Sourdough on MySpace
Yodeling cowboys and cyberspace are an odd pairing indeed. But I'm told if you don't keep up with the times you get left behind.
Us yodeling cowboys have been at the back of the herd of popular culture long enough.
With that in mind our good friend Fur Dixon decided to take the bull by the horns and introduce
Sourdough Slim to the MySpace generation. Check out all the fun at: www.myspace.com/sourdoughslimmusic
And while your on myspace check out the hot pickin', cool tunes and solid harmonies of one of Sourdough's favorite musical acts, Fur Dixon and Steve Werner.
Go to: www.myspace.com/furandsteve and www.furandsteve.com
Also check out the new CD "CLASSICS" available on line at CD Baby www.cdbaby.com/sourdoughslim
Here's Sourdough doing his classic "Yodeling Cowboy" on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYkOwQx3PIg
And doing a fabulous rendition of "Barnacle Bill" at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsCQkMFl-w8
The Happy Go Lucky Sound Of Sourdough Slim
"Classics" CD, Huge Hit!
"A masterpiece" - Wylie Gustafson, Wylie & The Wild West
"There's just no way to listen to this one without enjoying yourself" - Cowboy Magazine
This CD is breaking all other sales records 10 to one. For years folks have been asking Sourdough to record a CD of the classic cowboy and hobo songs in his unique
vocal style. Now that it is out and selling like hotcakes, we wonder why we waited so long. This fabulous new CD is a collection of the classic songs you have been clamoring for including:
"High Noon", "Cool Water", "Don't Fence Me In", "You Are My Sunshine", "I'm An Old Cowhand", "The Big Rock Candy Mountain",
"Tumbling Tumbleweeds", "Back In The Saddle Again" and 8 more. Order yours by sending $15 postpaid,
check or M. O. to: Sourdough Slim, PO Box 2021, Paradise, CA 95967
You'll be glad you did!
Plus Two Other Recent Releases
"Vaudeville Cowboy"
Sourdough Slim's 2006 CD of songs from the "traveling tent show" days of the '20's and '30's.
This great CD includes 17 original and classic songs that reflect the impact of the cowboy and the West on the vaudeville and tent shows stages of yore.
Inspired by the likes of Jimmie Rodgers and other traveling minstrels
of the nineteen twenties and depression years to follow, Sourdough paints a musical picture of these early days of country blues and traveling music.
Order yours today! Send $15 postpaid to: Sourdough Slim, PO Box 2021, Paradise, CA 95967
"The title says it all. There is no one today more versed in the great tradition of old time vaudeville and the tent shows that toured throughout the country in the 1920's and 30's then Sourdough Slim.
- Don Edwards
"Like the forgotten vaudeville entertainers, Slim brings a high-level of showmanship to the proceedings. . . . all of this is Slim's interpretation of a colorful era, but it takes a mastermind to pull all this together and wrap it up in a coherent, if not immensely enjoyable, presentation."
- Dan Willging, Dirty Linen Magazine
Six-Guns 'n Sage CD, popular 2004 release
Sourdough's 2004 release received high marks from fans and reviewers alike. Steeped in the traditions of such early country music pioneers as Jimmie Rodgers, Tex Ritter, Frankie Marvin and Carson J. Robison,
Sourdough Slim puts his own unique brand on 16 classic and original songs on this new recording. Accompanying himself on accordion, guitar, harmonica and baritone ukulele, the lively tracks on this CD bring back
the romance and feel of an era when cowboy music was in it's heyday. Top it all off with the award winning yodeling that earned him the Academy of Western Artists Will Rogers award for "Yodeler of the Year" and you have
one great tribute to the wild and woolly West. Sourdough is joined on several tracks by John Girton of "Dan Hicks Hot Licks" fame and long time cohort Pam Laughlin on clarinet. The album is dedicated to legendary border radio pitchman and
yodeling cowboy, Dallas Turner (Nevada Slim), who starts the whole thing off with one of his famous carnival pitches and closes the CD with a side show bark he used while working 1940"s carnivals.
Recent Reviews:
"An excellent album. . . . he's perfected the craft of delivering an authentic old time cowboy sound. His songwriting is first-rate and his performances have delighted audiences from coast to coast."
- O. J. Sikes, The Western Way magazine
"Six-Guns 'n Sage is a thoroughly entertaining collection of cowboy songs, many of them originals. . . . enchanting here, with his humor, fine musicianship and award-winning yodeling. Slim's version of "Barnacle Bill" is
a complete scream."
- Christine LaPado, Chico News & Review
"This album is a pure delight. Loads of fun. Sourdough Slim is always Sourdough Slim, but this album is a refreshingly shinier version. Really top notch."
- Darrell Arnold, Cowboy Magazine
"The album's strength lies in how fun and non-typical Slim's versions of songs are....much more invigorating than 9/10ths
of the stuff you hear from the current cadre of western revivalists."
-Ronald Lankford Jr., Sing Out! magazine
Order yours today. Check the CD page for details.
Plains to Pampas - Sourdough in South America, December 2006
In early December Sourdough Slim joined the Western Folklife Center in an exchange of cowboy culture with the Gauchos of Brazil and Argentina. Sharing the stage with Wylie & The Wild West and famous Gaucho musicians, he entertained at sold out shows in Porto Alegre and Buenos Aires. In Porto Alegre, Sourdough and Wylie were crowned honorary Gauchos as the enthusiastic Brazilian audience went wild with a standing ovation. The language barrier was further broken down by the dynamic yodeling of both performers and the uproarious physical comedy of the "Doughmeister." All told, it was a proud moment of respect, appreciation and understanding between two like cultures from opposite hemispheres. Hats off to The Western Folklife Center, Boojum Expeditions, our South American hosts and translators, including Sr. Luiz Carlos Borges and the Institute of Gaucho Traditions & Folklore, Armando DeFerrari, Sr. Pablo Loranzo, Country2.com, Gabriel Gratzer and the wonderful entourage of traveling companions that made this cultural exchange possible. For more info check out: www.westernfolklife.org www.boojum.com & www.wyliewebsite.com
Make plans to attend the fabulous National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada January 26 through February 2, 2008. Sourdough Slim will be there entertaining as well as many of the top cowboy poets & musicians from around the country.
Go to: www.westernfolklife.org
Cowboy Train Conquers Canada, November 2006
For four days and three nights in November, Tom Russells' Cowboy Train barreled across Canada from Vancouver to Toronto. 75 passengers on this "festival on wheels" were royally entertained by the likes of Tom Russell, Michael Martin, Sourdough Slim, Wylie & The Wild West, Rosalie Sorrels and Stephanie Davis. Aboard the vintage 1950's streamliner passenger train the good times never let up as the entourage rattled up and over the grandeur of the Rocky Mountains and across the vast prairies, lakes and woodlands of our neighbor to the north all to the accompaniment of some of the greatest roots music of our time. A grand adventure like none other. Thanks to Tom Russell and Charlie Hunter, the mastermind behind Roots On The Rails. For more info go to www.rootsontherails.com & www.tomrussell.com
Catch up with you on down the trail.