The Bellamy Brothers

Marty Stuart

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Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert will join Keith Urban as headliners for the 2010 Oregon Jamboree country music festival in Sweet Home July 30-Aug. 1, festival organizers announced Monday.

Shelton will perform at 8:45 p.m. Saturday, July 31, and Lambert will cap off the festival with a 6:30 p.m. show on Sunday, Aug. 1.

Also signed for the Jamboree are the Bellamy Brothers, who will appear in the 2 p.m. slot on Saturday; Marty Stuart at noon on Sunday; and The Oak Ridge Boys at 2 p.m. Sunday

Shelton has put 16 singles on the country charts, including five Number One hits: his debut single “Austin” in 2001, “The Baby” in 2003, “Some Beach” in 2004-05, “Home” in 2008 and “She Wouldn’t Be Gone” in 2009. His first four albums, “Blake Shelton,” “The Dreamer,” “Blake Shelton’s Barn & Grill,” and “Pure BS” all have been certified gold. His newest album,
“Hillbilly Bone,” is expected to be released in 2010.

“Blake Shelton is absolutely a great artist, a great performer,” said Shannon Thayer, promotion and marketing coordinator for the Jamboree. “He’s really going to make that Saturday line-up a great one.”

Lambert is only the third country female singer in history to have three records debut at No. 1 on Billboard Country Albums: “Kerosene” (2005), “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend “(2007) and “Revolution,” released in September of this year.

“Miranda Lambert is just great,” Thayer said. “All the headliners are in place. It all just fell together.”

Lambert and Shelton have dated since 2006 and have collaborated on a number of projects. Lambert sang background vocals on Shelton’s 2008 single “Home” and recorded and co-wrote a duet with Shelton, “Bare Skin Rug”, for his studio album “Startin’ Fires,” released later in 2008.

Shelton also co-wrote three songs on “Revolution” and provided background vocals on “Maintain the Pain.”

Thayer said the seven other slots in the three-day line-up will be filled, “later, probably “February-ish.”

The Bellamy Brothers, comprised of David and Homer Bellamy, have been performing together since 1968, charting 20 No. 1 singles and more than 50 hits overall in producing more than fifty albums. Those hits range from “Sugar Daddy” and “Redneck Girl” to “Old Hippie,” “Kids of the Baby Boom” and “I Need More of You”

The Oak Ridge Boys, who have existed in various forms since 1943. Originally a gospel group, the Oak Ridge Boys switched to country music in the 1970s, releasing a string of hit albums and singles that lasted into the early 1990s. They’ve had 17 singles reach the top of the country charts, “Elvira” and “Bobbie Sue” also making the Top 40 pop and Adult Contemporary charts, with “Elvira” being certified platinum as a single.

Other hits for the group include”Sail Away.” “Dream On,” “Heart of Mine,” “Fancy Free,” “So Fine,” “American Made” and “Deliver.”

Stuart, a one-time member of Johnny Cash’s band, who also played with Lester Flatt and collaborated with Travis Tritt, has become known as one of country music’s most eclectic artists as a fiddler and singer, performing and recording widely diverse types of country music.

His more than a dozen albums include such hits as “Tempted,” “Hillbilly Rock,” “Burn Me Down” and “This One’s Gonna Hurt You.”

Thayer said Jamboree fans can now purchase tickets directly from home via “a really user-friendly, interactive” system that allows them to print their tickets from their own computer.

Tickets purchased through the system, called Elevate, can be scanned at the gate and can be traced to the owner, which means they can’t be re-used by someone else, she said.

Thayer said the festival will still use bracelets as it has in the past.

The new system also offers a gift certificate that can be printed from on-line –“great for holiday and birthday gifts,” Thayer said, full maps of all the campsites and of the VIP section.

“We’ve finally moved into that paperless age,” she said.