Disney’s Record Labels Drop Josh Gracin, Marcel & Phil Stacey- Add New Artists Ruby Summer & The Parks

With internet rumors floating around that Josh Gracin has joined fellow Lyric Street Records label-mates Phil Stacey and Marcel as former Lyric Street Record label-mates, it has been confirmed through the company’s website by his omission. Gracin joins other key artists such as John Berry, Sawyer Brown, Lari White and Aaron Tippin as other previous artists released from their record deals with Lyric Street.

The label is part of the Disney Music Group, which is owned by the Walt Disney Company. President Randy Goodman, formerly a general manager for RCA Records, founded the label in 1997. The label launched a subsidiary label, Carolwood Records, in late 2008. Jessica Andrews was the first artist signed to this subsidiary label, followed by Trent Tomlinson (who was formerly signed to Lyric Street proper) and Love and Theft. This leaves five artists on the Lyric Street label: Rascal Flatts, Sarah Buxton, SHeDaisy, Billy Ray Cyrus and Bucky Covington.

Two new artists have been added to the Carolwood label. The first is a duo of sisters named Ruby Summer (pictured). Ruby is 18, Summer is 20. They are from Encinitas, California who surf, dance, act, play guitar, dulcimer, and other various sundry things with strings. The other is another family-oriented duo called The Parks. Johnny and Clint Park are father and son, who have a hankering for Southern-rock barnburners and country ballads. "Musically, Dad and I are on the same page," Clint says matter-of-factly. "We're very Texas-influenced."