Cory Frye
Miranda Lambert will return to the Oregon Jamboree next summer as one of the festival’s headliners, organizers have announced.
She will join Trace Adkins and Old Dominion as the lead acts at the Jamboree, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
The 2022 Oregon Jamboree is scheduled for Friday through Sunday, July 29-31. The announcements came as part of a “Twelve Days of Christmas” holiday promotion via email and social media, which included ticket deals and other daily offers and announcements.
Lambert, a 29-time (a record nine consecutive) American Country Music award winner, has issued seven albums, including “Kerosene” (2005), “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” (2007), “Revolution” (2009), “Four the Record” (2011), the chart-topping “Platinum” (2014) and “The Weight of These Wings” (2016) and “Wildcard” (2019). Her discography has borne a cornucopia of such hits as “The House That Built Me,” “Heart Like Mine,” “Over You,” “Famous in a Small Town,” “Somethin’ Bad,” “Bluebird,” “Vice,” “Gunpowder & Lead,” “More Like Her” and “White Liar,”
Since 2011, Lambert has served as one-third of the Pistol Annies with Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley. Her latest effort, “The Marfa Tapes,” a collaboration with Jack Ingram and Jon Randall, was released in May.
Lambert last performed at the Jamboree in 2014, after making her first appearance in 2010.
Co-headliner Trace Adkins has racked up more than 20 singles on the Billboard Country music chart in a 25-year recording career, including top performers “This Ain’t No Thinkin’ Thing,” “Ladies Love Country Boys” and “You’re Gonna Miss This.” His most recent album, “The Way I Wanna Go,” came out in August.
Adkins is also familiar to moviegoers and television viewers in such big-screen fare as “The Lincoln Lawyer” and “Deepwater Horizon” and series like “King of the Hill,” “My Name Is Earl,” “Celebrity Apprentice” and “The Voice.”
Since 2014, the Nashville-based Old Dominion has released four albums, featuring such hits as “One Man Band,” “Written in the Sand,” “Hotel Key” and “No Such Things As a Broken Heart.” The quintet’s latest disc, the No. 4 Country slab “Time, Tequila & Therapy,” streeted in October.
Jamboree organizers also announced Travis Denning, Danielle Bradbery and Whitey Morgan and the 78’s for the 2022 lineup, plus Colt Ford and Kylie Frey.
The 29-year-old Denning debuted in 2018 with the memorable biographical story-song “David Ashley Parker from Powder Springs,” which landed in Billboard’s Top 40 US Hot Country Songs. He followed the next year with the top-selling “After a Few,” a 60-week Country Airplay chart staple. Denning makes his Jamboree return after his 2019 debut.
The Cypress, Texas-born Bradbery entered the country consciousness after winning Season 4 of NBC’s “The Voice” in 2013, the youngest artist at the time to do so at age 23. She followed that year with a full-length eponymous debut, home to the No. 16 Hot Country Songs charter “The Heart of Dixie.” A 2017 sophomore album, the No. 6 “I Don’t Believe We’ve Met,” yielded the hits “Sway,” “Worth It” and “Hello Summer,” which was rerecorded and issued as “Goodbye Summer” the following year.
Michigan honky-tonk outlaws Whitey Morgan and the 78’s first gained recognition after performing on NPR’s Mountain Stage in 2010. Their albums include “Honky Tonks and Cheap Motels” (2008); a 2010 self-titled release that earned such accolades for its leader (the aforementioned Mr. Morgan, born Eric David Allen) as “country music’s next renaissance man,” as declared by Country Music Chicago; “Sonic Ranch” (2015) and “Hard Times and White Lines” (2018), a Top 20 Country hit.
Ford made his name as a professional golfer before turning to music, fusing country and rap into a seven-album career that began with 2008’s million-selling “Ride Through the Country” and a slate of memorable singles in “Dirt Road Anthem” with Brantley Gilbert (a song later sent to the top of the Hot Country chart by Jason Aldean), “Cold Beer” with Jamey Johnson, and its title track.
Frey, described in promotional materials as a “third-generation rodeo girl and Louisiana state goat-tying champion,” added to her growing list of accomplishments last year with the “Rodeo Queen” EP, produced by Paul Worley (Big & Rich, Lady A), which includes such memorable cuts as “Horses in Heaven,” “Spur of the Moment” and a fascinating, fiddle-and-slide-guitar driven cover of Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.”