Getting Closer! Explained

Getting Closer!
Type:	studio
Artist:	Phil Keaggy
Cover:	KeaggyCloserOrig.jpg
Released:	1985
Label:	Nissi
Producer:	Smitty Price, Phil Keaggy
Prev Title:	Underground
Prev Year:	1983
Next Title:	Way Back Home
Next Year:	1986

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

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Phil Keaggy – Getting Closer (Vinyl, Album, LP). Discogs. March 29, 2016.
2. Web site: Phil Keaggy – Getting Closer (CD, Album). Discogs. March 29, 2016.