When I was a wee little lass -- ok, not so entirely wee..

I was going to a Lutheran church (at least the third Lutheran church I'd regularly attended in my childhood-to-that-point) and we (my church's youth group and leaders) had been assigned to prepare the music and liturgy for the local Lutheran youth gathering.

The band performing at this gathering was one Lost And Found, or LAF as I usually type.

So we were given a copy of one of their tapes and some other information so that we could insert a few of their songs into what we were planning. And we planned the weekend.

When that conference weekend arrived, I was too young to attend except during the parts when my youth group was performing. It was a multi-culterally themed youth group, and I was attending a very small church made up of members from Haiti, Jamaica, and other parts of the Caribbean. We performed Caribbean gospel songs and such. Which is fun, because my brothers and I are very white kids but were the only white kids in the youth group, so we didn't quite have the cultural background of our fellow youth group members, and thus didn't really know what we were doing up there so much.

At any rate, I did get to meet LAF and talk to them a bit more than I would have had I not been part of that church. And then I got to see them at least once a year for the next 5 or 7 years.

And then, one dark and .. wait, it wasn't dark.. two weeks out of the summer of '97, I saw them at DC/LA '97 (the LA part) and at the first year of Spirit West Coast. After that, I didn't see them again.

'Till Saturday.

And after the concert, they gave me some cassettes to replace the ones I had had as a wee lass that have, in my bazillion moves and bazillion others-ganking-my-stuffs since, been disappeared from my collection.

So they gave me Speedwood I and Sikkibahm (both of which I currently still have on CD, along with Speedwood II and This .. and now also have Something and the Christmas CD) as well as Hengh! and This Is Our Prespective. (They spelled it as prespective intentionally, btw.)

When I got in my car, I put Hengh! in right away, 'cause it's the only one from which there were songs I haven't heard within the past several years.

And when that was through, I put in Prespective so that I could hear the beautiful racial-reconciliation-themed ballad, Skin.

Instead of Skin, though, or any of the three other songs on Prespective .. there was this Spanish guy crooning to Latin Jazz or some such.

I've heard of this before .. one Koo Chung sent one Andrew Peterson one of his CD's, to which he got the reply that the CD featured a Spanish singer rather than Koo.

So apparently there's a conspiracy afoot. Some guy at the reproduction company wants this Spanish guy gotten out into the musical world, and copies random albums (of indie artists, no less!) with the Spanish guy instead of what they're supposed to contain.

Either way, it greatly amused me. I'm just glad I've got Skin and the three other songs on different albums.