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Getting Closer!

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Released
  
1985

Getting Closer! (1985)
  
Way Back Home (1986)

Label
  
Nissi

Studio
  
Weddington Studios, North Hollywood, CA White Field Studio, Santa Ana, CA Peace in the Valley, Arieta, CA

Producer
  
Smitty Price, Phil Keaggy

Getting Closer! is an album by guitarist Phil Keaggy, released in 1985, on Nissi Records.

Contents

Track listing

All songs were written by Phil Keaggy, unless otherwise noted.

LP

Side one
  1. "Where Has Our Love Gone" — 3:40
  2. "Passport" — 4:13
  3. "I Will Be There" — 5:00
  4. "Getting Closer" (Keaggy / Richard Souther / Dave Spurr) — 4:09
  5. "Movie" (Keaggy / John Mehler) — 4:59
Side two
  1. "Sounds" — 6:05
  2. "Like an Island" — 3:50
  3. "Look Deep Inside" — 5:08
  4. "Riverton" (Keaggy / Souther) — 3:54
  5. "Reaching Out" (Keaggy / Bernadette Keaggy) — 4:31

CD (re-release)

  1. "Look Deep Inside"
  2. "Where Has Our Love Gone"
  3. "Movie" (Keaggy / Mehler)
  4. "Like an Island"
  5. "Riverton" (Keaggy / Souther)
  6. "Sounds"
  7. "Get Up and Go" (bonus track)
  8. "Passport"
  9. "Getting Closer" (Keaggy / Souther / Spurr)
  10. "Sunrise" (bonus track)
  11. "I Will Be There"
  12. "Reaching Out" (Keaggy / Keaggy)

The CD reissue adds "Get Up and Go" and "Sunrise", both recorded around the same time as the rest of the album but left off for various reasons.

Personnel

  • Phil Keaggy – guitars, bass, E-mu Drumulator programming and vocals
  • Smitty Price – keyboards and LinnDrum programming
  • John Patitucci – bass guitar on "Sounds", "Passport", and "I Will Be There"
  • Dave Spurr – drums on "Sounds", "Passport", and "I Will Be There"
  • Richard Souther – keyboards on "Riverton"
  • Rhett Lawrence – Fairlight synthesizer programming
  • John Mehler – background vocals on "Movie"
  • Jim Keltner – drums on "Sunrise" (CD reissue only)
  • Bernadette Keaggy – spoken voice on "Get Up and Go" (CD reissue only)

    • References

    Getting Closer! Wikipedia
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