Lyric Street Records is a young country music label. It's major signing so far has been the top-selling band, Rascal Flatts.

Until now.

In December, Bucky Covington, a North Carolina artist who made it to American Idol top 12 finalists this year, signed with Lyric Street. The label expects to hit the ground running in January with Covington's first single.

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