Getting Closer!

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

Getting Closer!
Studio album by
Phil Keaggy
Released1985
Studio
  • Weddington Studios, North Hollywood, California
  • Whitefield Studio, Santa Ana, California
  • Peace in the Valley, Arieta, California
LabelNissi
ProducerSmitty Price, Phil Keaggy
Phil Keaggy chronology
Underground
(1983)		 Getting Closer!
(1985)		 Way Back Home
(1986)
1999 re-release cover art

Track listing

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

LP
Side one[1]
  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]
  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",[2] 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)

Production

  • Smitty Price – producer, audio engineer
  • Phil Keaggy - producer
  • Bob Cotton – executive producer, audio engineer
  • Peter Haden – audio engineer
  • Walter Grant – audio engineer
  • Mike Ross – audio engineer
  • Joe Bellamy – audio engineer
  • Chris Taylor – audio engineer
  • Bob Lockhart – audio engineer
  • Terry Lang – audio engineer
  • Weddington Studios, North Hollywood, California – recording studio
  • Whitefield Studio, Santa Ana, California – recording studio
  • Peace in the Valley, Arieta, California – recording studio
  • Steve Hall – mastering at Futuredisc

References
  1. "Phil Keaggy – Getting Closer (Vinyl, Album, LP)". Discogs. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
  2. "Phil Keaggy – Getting Closer (CD, Album)". Discogs. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
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