BEAT THIS SUMMER TOUR
Presented By Cracker Barrel

Special Guests Include Chris Young and Lee Brice

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Brad Paisley announced the first leg of his highly
anticipated 2013 tour, Beat This Summer Tour presented by Cracker Barrel
Old Country Store®. The tour kicks off in St. Louis, Mo. on May 9 and
will hit over 29 cities in the United States and Canada during the
summer months. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® is the title sponsor
of the tour. Special guests will be Chris Young and Lee Brice. More
information and details of the tour will be announced soon.

Paisley is proud to partner with Live Beyond by donating $1 from each
ticket sale. Live Beyond is a Nashville nonprofit with a mission to
provide medical care, clean water, nutritional
support and development activities to impoverished communities in Haiti. Go to www.livebeyond.org for more information or to donate.

“Teaming up with Brad Paisley for this tour is exciting for everyone
at Cracker Barrel because he is one of the most highly-regarded
modern-day entertainers, and his connection with country music fans, our
brand, and our guests is such a phenomenal fit,” says Cracker Barrel
Marketing Manager Julie
Craig. “The tour integration itself is the largest we’ve ever launched
as a brand, and we’re thrilled that the Cracker Barrel Old Country
Store® exclusive music program is helping to bring this amazing tour
experience to thousands of fans.”

Paisley is a critically acclaimed singer, songwriter, guitarist and
entertainer, which has earned him three GRAMMYs, 14 Academy of Country
Music Awards, 14 Country Music Association Awards including Entertainer
of the Year for 2010, 3 ASCAP Country Music Songwriter/Artists awards
and numerous other awards. He is a proud member of the Grand Ole Opry.
Since his first #1 single in 1999 he has placed 21 singles at the top of
the charts, the latest being his current single “Southern Comfort
Zone.” Paisley’s upcoming album, Wheelhouse, will be released on April
9. Paisley produced the album and wrote or co-wrote all of the tracks.
His 2012 Virtual Reality World Tour played to over one million fans in
the U.S. and Europe.

About Chris Young:
2013 is off to a great start with Grammy nominated vocalist Chris Young
continuing to accumulate more career milestones. Highlights include
recent TV performances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Talk, Katie, and
the ACM Awards. He also added his fifth career topping single,
PLATINUM and four GOLD RIAA certified singles, plus a GOLD album for his
sophomore release, The Man I Want To Be to his accolades. With his
rich, warm baritone and penchant for writing relatable, slice-of-life
songs, Young, as described by Entertainment Weekly, clearly “has a long,
lucrative future ahead of him.” For tour dates and all the latest
information on Chris Young, visit http://chrisyoungcountry.com/ and follow
him on Twitter @ChrisYoungMusic.

About Lee Brice:
Brice’s moving single “I Drive Your Truck” is the fastest moving single
of his career, currently climbing the Top 15 at country radio. The new
track follows two consecutive PLATINUM certified No. one hits “A Woman
Like You” and “Hard To Love” off his sophomore release HARD 2 LOVE on
Curb Records, which was named one of The New York Time’s Top 10 Albums
of 2012 alongside artists including Frank Ocean, Kesha and Taylor Swift.
iTunes also handpicked the album as part of their Best of 2012 feature
as the “Top Country Breakthrough Album of the Year.” Brice recently
received nominations for “New Male Vocalist of the Year” and “Song of
the Year” for “A Woman Like You” at the upcoming 48th Annual ACM Awards.
For more information, visit www.leebrice.com.

About Cracker Barrel Old Country Store:
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. provides a friendly
home-away-from-home in its old country stores and restaurants. Guests
are cared for like family while relaxing and enjoying real home-style
food and shopping that’s surprisingly
unique, genuinely fun and reminiscent of America’s country heritage…all
at a fair price. The restaurant serves up delicious, home-style country
food such as meatloaf and homemade chicken n’ dumplins as well as its
made-from-scratch biscuits using an old family recipe. The authentic
old country retail store is fun to shop and offers unique gifts and
self-indulgences.

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBRL) was established
in 1969 in Lebanon, Tenn. and operates 621 company-owned locations in
42 states. Every Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® location is open
seven days a week with hours Sunday through Thursday, 6 a.m. – 10 p.m.,
and Friday and Saturday, 6 a.m. – 11 p.m. For more information, visit
crackerbarrel.com.

About Live Beyond:
Mobile Medical Disaster Relief (MMDR) began as a response to Hurricane
Katrina in 2005 with immediate delivery of medical aid and supplies to
the affected regions. Since the 2010 Haiti earthquake, MMDR has worked
extensively near Port-Au-Prince providing medical care, nutritional
support, clean water, and micro-finance. Established as a 501(c)(3)
humanitarian organization, MMDR has transitioned its work under a new
name, Live Beyond, to reflect a broadened mission as an organization
that chooses to Live Beyond ourselves our culture, our borders, and this
life so that others can Live Beyond disease, hunger, poverty, and
oppression.

Beat This Summer Tour presented by Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® dates are as follows:

May 9 St. Louis, MO Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
May 10 Indianapolis, IN Klipsch Music Center
May 11 Chicago, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
May 16 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
May 17 Boston, MA Comcast Center
May 18 Hartford, CT Comcast Theatre
May 31 Toronto, ONT Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
June 1 Pittsburgh, PA First Niagara Pavilion
June 2 Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga Performing Arts
Center
June 6 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
June 7 Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
June 8 Raleigh, NC Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion
June 21 West Palm Beach, FL Cruzan Amphitheatre *
June 22 Tampa, FL Live Nation Amphitheatre *
June 23 Atlanta, GA Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood *
June 28 Virginia Beach, VA Farm Bureau Live
June 29 Washington, DC Jiffy Lube Live
July 12 Darien Center, NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
July 13 Ft. Loramie, OH Country Concert at Hickory Hills Lake
July 20 Twin Lakes, WI Country Thunder Festival Grounds
July 27 Dallas, TX Gexa Energy Pavilion
July 28 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
August 1 Denver, CO Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
August 2 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheatre
August 16 Mission, BC Rockin’ River Festival-Mission Raceway Park*
August 17 Brownsville, OR Williamette Country Music Festival *
August 22 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
August 23 Sacramento, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre
August 24 San Bernardino, CA San Manuel Amphitheatre

*Lee Brice is not on this date.

Live Nation is the national tour promoter. For more information log on to www.livenation.com or www.bradpaisley.com
for on-sale and up to date information on Beat This Summer Tour
presented by Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® – dates to be added.