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Chagall Guevara was a mainstream, “secular” album on the MCA label, but my copy has the Sparrow logo on it. What gives?

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Chagall Guevara was a mainstream, “secular” album on the MCA label, but my copy has the Sparrow logo on it. What gives?

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Sparrow picked up distribution of the album for the Christian market in September 1991. From the October 1991 issue of CCM: “Sparrow Records has also agreed, with MCA, to release Chagall Guevera’s self-titled debut to the Christian market. The band’s rousing mainstage Cornerstone performance in front of thousands of enthusiastic fans would indicate that lots of us are more than ready for music made with this goal in mind: ‘We want to make intelligent music and play it like mindless fools.'” Anecdotal evidence posted to Usenet in January 1995 by Andrew Taylor of QRSTUV provides more detail: “… [T]he reason it was released on a Christian label was because a bunch of Christian labels went to MCA for distribution rights on the album. MCA asked Chagall what they thought of the idea. They didn’t like it but MCA went ahead anyway.