ERIC CHURCH DOUBLES DOWN WITH CELEBRATION OF NO. 1 SONGS “ROUND HERE BUZZ” & “SOME OF IT” Second Leg of Critically-Acclaimed Double Down Tour Underway Now

Eric Church Celebrates No. 1 Hit "Some Of It" With (L to R): SeaGayle Music's Brandon Gregg, Emily Witters and Marc Driskill, co-writers Bobby Pinson, (Church) and Clint Daniels, plus SeaGayle Music's JD Groover and Kim Wiggins | Photo Credit: Anthony D'Angio

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – “You’re the closest thing to Merle Haggard we will ever know,” proclaimed “Some Of It” co-writer Clint Daniels, embodying the overwhelming sense of reverence in the room for current CMA Entertainer of the Year nominee Eric Church as he joined his team of BMI co-writers in celebration of his two most recent No. 1 singles. Church greeted a full house flanked by two jets and Desperate Man road cases at an aircraft hangar on the outskirts of Nashville, a nod to both the film location of his “Desperate Man” music video as well as the cover image on the album from which the title track takes its name, a current nominee in the prestigious CMA Album of the Year category and already honored as one of 2018’s best by American Songwriter, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, USA Today, Variety and Vulture, among others. Taking note from his critically-acclaimed and chart-topping Double Down Tour, Church chose to double down with the No. 1 celebration hosted by BMI, first recognizing his most recent chart-topper “Some Of It,” the reflective track off Desperate Man written by Church and Daniels together with Jeff Hyde and Bobby Pinson, which was applauded by Esquire as “an open-hearted look at life’s hard-won lessons [that] is as easy as easy-listening comes.” The party also celebrated “Round Here Buzz,” the Platinum-certified hit written by Church and Hyde along with Luke Dick which Rolling Stone praised as “prettily elegiac.” “He is one of the best songwriters this town’s ever seen and will ever see,” declared SeaGayle Music’s JD Groover as the celebratory toasts began, with Sony ATV’s Josh Van Valkenburg speaking directly to Church to note, “As an entertainer, you continue to change the world. You’re out there doing things that nobody else is even thinking about doing until you get out there and do it. And then as a songwriter, which is why we’re here to celebrate you today, I think you’re transcendent. I don’t care when these songs were written, I think they’d be special. I think they’d matter.” Perhaps the most evident way to see how much they truly do matter was with the video compilation played at the celebration, featuring a who’s who of Nashville artists thanking Church for inspiring them to chase a musical dream and for pushing them to be better every time they step on stage. Featuring artists from Kenny Chesney to Tim McGraw, Maren Morris, Thomas Rhett, Luke Combs, Ray Wylie Hubbard and more, each spoke with passion about their respect for Church and the music he creates. “The thing I’ve always admired about Eric is the truth in his calling… He’s non-categorizable,” explained Keith Urban, whose current single “We Were” was penned by Church. “Record to record, he’s gonna infuse whatever is speaking to him at any given time into what he’s doing, but his narrative as a writer and his voice is the through line for me. Everything I hear of his, that rock-steady Northern Star that connects all the different experiments that he has in record making is great songs... They should all go number one, Eric.” “That video was something I’m not ready to address yet,” said Church, his voice faltering and emotion evident in his face as he returned to the stage. “That was one of the coolest things – no, that’s about the coolest thing I’ve been a part of… My intention was always just to try to make great music, write great songs. And to see it matter is really something.” “But I will say this after seeing the video; I’m not done. I’m not retiring. I’m not dying… I look forward to kicking their asses every night on stage,” he concluded with a smirk. Church returns to the road this weekend as one of the first few concerts at San Francisco’s brand-new Chase Center, which opened earlier this month. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.ericchurch.com, download the new Eric Church app and follow on Facebook and Twitter @ericchurch and on Instagram @ericchurchmusic. Upcoming Double Down Tour Dates Sept. 28                       San Francisco, Calif. || Chase Center Oct. 4 & 5                   Grand Rapids, Mich. || Van Andel Arena Oct. 11 & 12               Philadelphia, Pa. || Wells Fargo Center Oct. 25                        Little Rock, Ark. || Verizon Arena Oct. 26                        Birmingham, Ala. || Legacy Arena at the BJCC Nov. 1                         Manchester, N.H. || SNHU Arena Nov. 2                         Hartford, Conn. || XL Center Nov. 15 & 16              Washington, D.C. || The Anthem Nov. 22 & 23              Sacramento, Calif. || Golden 1 Center About Eric Church The three-time Country Music Association and six-time Academy of Country Music Award winner released his highly-anticipated album Desperate Man atop the Billboard Country Albums chart in October 2018. The album also debuted at No. 5 on the all-genre Billboard 200. Rolling Stone describes the album in their July 2018 cover story as “classic Church: expertly crafted and country-radio-friendly, while also pushing boundaries in a way that sounds natural and unforced” and American Songwriter notes in a cover story that it “sublimates the pain of a tumultuous year into his most adventuresome album yet.” Church has returned to the road for his 2019 Double Down Tour, visiting nearly 30 markets for back-to-back nights of two unique shows sans-opening act to give fans 6+ hours of his iconic music in each city. The tour also included a massive stop at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, where Church broke the venue’s concert attendance record with 56,521 fans and nearly tripled the attendance record he set at Bridgestone Arena in 2017. # # #

ERIC CHURCH AT THE TOP WITH “SOME OF IT” No. 1 on both Billboard and Mediabase Church’s Double Down Tour Resumes in September

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Continuing a dominant year characterized by unrivaled success on the road, Eric Churchnow pairs that feat with chart-topping success at Country radio as current single “Some Of It” tops both theBillboard and Mediabase charts. Recognized by Esquire as “an open-hearted look at life’s hard-won lessons [that] is as easy as easy-listening comes,” “Some Of It” was written by Church together with Jeff Hyde, Clint Daniels and Bobby Pinson and is the second single off Church’s sixth studio album, Desperate Man, praised as one of 2018’s top albums by American Songwriter, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, Stereogum, The Los Angeles Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, USA Today and Vulture, among others. Vulture adds, “‘Some Of It’ coyly opens with a list of simple truths — ‘Beer don’t keep, love’s not cheap, and trucks don’t wreck themselves’ — and builds to a chorus about life being a game of patience and learning. You think he’s singing about the value of wisdom, and then the bridge deals a haymaker: ‘What really makes you a man / Is being true to her till your glass runs out of sand,’” before noting he “weaves excellence out of ordinary threads.” However, the reflective track almost didn’t make the album. Church notes, “I was playing the album for a dear friend of ours and my wife was with me. This person loved the album, but my wife said, ‘but let me play you what did notmake it,’ and the first thing she played was ‘Some Of It.’ It was always a favorite song of mine, and I listened to it that night and it is just… I am going to regret if I do not record this song. I called my manager that night and said, ‘hey we have got to talk.’ The recording was done, the record was essentially done, but I said, ‘I have got to do this, I have to add this song.’ Initially, all the stuff that I thought was going to be the pillars for this album just bombed. But I think it’s really interesting that the album took on an identity that allowed ‘Some Of It’ to make it from where it started to where it is now, and it just fit in the dialogue. To me, it made the album. I loved the album before it was on there - but it might be my favorite album now that it’s on there, so that’s the way I look at it.” Additionally, Entertainment Weekly praised Church’s mastery of such “meditative mid-tempo numbers reflecting on simple truths – none better than the hard-won wisdom of ‘Some Of It’” at his recent Nissan Stadium show in Nashville, where he broke the venue’s concert attendance record with more than 56,000 fans just two weeks before awing the same stadium’s audience with a 30-minute, solo acoustic CMA Fest set that featured a medley of 17 hits. Church also used his solo stadium show to debut the chart-topping song’s music video directed by Reid Long, which continues the jailbird storyline of his “Desperate Man” video. The critically-acclaimed Double Down Tour continues this fall, resuming on Sept. 13 in Green Bay, Wisc. Complete list of remaining 2019 Double Down Tour dates are as follows: Sept. 13 & 14              Green Bay, Wis. || Resch Center Sept. 20 & 21              Calgary, Alberta || Scotiabank Saddledome Sept. 28                       San Francisco, Calif. || Chase Center Oct. 4 & 5                   Grand Rapids, Mich. || Van Andel Arena Oct. 11 & 12               Philadelphia, Pa. || Wells Fargo Center Oct. 25                        Little Rock, Ark. || Verizon Arena Oct. 26                        Birmingham, Ala. || BJCC Arena Nov. 1                         Manchester, N.H. || SNHU Arena Nov. 2                         Hartford, Conn. || XL Center Nov. 15 & 16              Washington, D.C. || The Anthem Nov. 22 & 23              Sacramento, Calif. || Golden 1 Center For more information, visit www.ericchurch.com and follow on Facebook and Twitter @ericchurch and on Instagram@ericchurchmusic. About Eric Church  The three-time Country Music Association and six-time Academy of Country Music Award winner released his highly-anticipated album Desperate Man atop the Billboard Country Albums chart in October 2018. The album also debuted at No. 5 on the all-genre Billboard 200. Rolling Stone describes the album in their July 2018 cover story as “classic Church: expertly crafted and country-radio-friendly, while also pushing boundaries in a way that sounds natural and unforced” and American Songwriter notes that it “sublimates the pain of a tumultuous year into his most adventuresome album yet.” Church has returned to the road for his 2019 Double Down Tour, visiting nearly 30 markets for back-to-back nights of two unique shows sans-opening act to give fans 6+ hours of his iconic music in each city. The tour also included a massive stop at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, where Church broke the venue’s concert attendance record with 56,521 fans and nearly tripled the attendance record he set at Bridgestone Arena in 2017.