Leeland Mooring, the baby-faced namesake and frontman of the emerging band Leeland, appears on the cover of the November issue of CCM magazine, according to the band's e-mail newsletter.

Mooring shares the cover with industry O.G. Michael W. Smith, who allowed the teenager to write a a number of the songs on Smith's upcoming album Stand. The newsletter includes an image of the magazine cover, which frames its profile of Mooring/Smith as insight into the divinely appointed, "providential friendship" that apparently exists between the two.

Smith has gone on record in the past saying Leeland (the band) is the best thing he's heard in a long time, and other industry folks have filed similarly notable praise.

Our intrepid Melissa Miles knew about these guys way before most folks did, and caught up with them for an interview we published back in August. If you haven't read it yet, you need to.