[Exhibit 99]

                              POST OFFICE BOX 787
                               LEBANON, TENNESSEE
                                       37088-0787
                               PHONE 615.443.9869

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CBRL GROUP, INC.
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[Logo of CBRL Group, Inc.]

                                Contact:     Lawrence E. White
                                             Senior Vice President,
                                             Finance and Chief Financial Officer
                                             615-443-9869



                       CBRL GROUP, INC. TO PRESENT AT THE
                         MORGAN KEEGAN EQUITY CONFERENCE

Lebanon,  TN (September 3, 2004) - CBRL Group,  Inc.  (the  "Company")  (NASDAQ:
CBRL) will be presenting  at the Morgan  Keegan Equity  Conference to be held in
New Orleans at the JW Marriott Hotel on Friday, September 10, 2004, at 8:30 a.m.
Eastern Time (7:30 a.m.  Central Time).  The Company's  Senior Vice President of
Finance and Chief Financial Officer,  Lawrence E. White, will be speaking at the
conference.  An audio  webcast of the  presentation  will be available  over the
Internet at http://www.wsw.com/webcast/mk8/cbrl/.

     The replay of the webcast will be available one hour after the presentation
ends and will be  accessible  for 14 days.  The  archived  webcast  will also be
available on the Company's  website at  www.cbrlgroup.com  through September 23,
2004.

     Headquartered in Lebanon,  Tennessee,  CBRL Group, Inc.  presently operates
505 Cracker  Barrel Old Country Store  restaurants  and gift shops located in 41
states and 109 company-operated and 20 franchised Logan's Roadhouse  restaurants
in 18 states.


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