Ph'lip Side Explained

Ph'lip Side
Type:	studio
Artist:	Phil Keaggy
Cover:	PhlipSide2.jpg
Caption:	LP cover, labeled "This Side"
Released:	August 1980
Label:	Sparrow
Producer:	Dan Collins, Phil Keaggy
Prev Title:	The Master and the Musician
Prev Year:	1978
Next Title:	Town to Town
Next Year:	1981

Ph'lip Side is an album by guitarist Phil Keaggy, released in 1980 on Sparrow Records. To date, it is the only Phil Keaggy release to feature a double-sided cover image, in order to visually convey the "acoustic" and "electric" sides of the album. Corresponding song tracks are listed alongside each image.

Track listing

All songs written by Phil Keaggy, unless otherwise noted.

This side (acoustic)

1. "A Child (In Everyone's Heart)" – 4:01
2. "Little Ones" – 4:58
3. "Spend My Life With You" – 5:16
4. "Just a Moment Away" (Keaggy, Doug Pinnick) – 4:04
5. "I Belong to You" - 3:27

That side (electric)

1. "A Royal Commandment" – 5:46
2. "Sunday School" – 4:34
3. "Send Out Your Light" (Keaggy, Ted Sandquist) – 3.:28
4. "Pulling Down" (Keaggy, Greg X. Volz) – 5:26

Note: The 1980 release use the above track order. The 1982 reissue, and subsequent CD release, removes "Send Out Your Light" and adds "In Your Keep" and shuffles the track order.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Personnel

• Phil Keaggy – acoustic and electric guitars, vocals
• Richard Souther – piano, Rhodes, and synthesizers
• Leon Gaer – electric synthesized bass
• Leland Sklar - bass on "Send Out Your Light"
• Paul Leim – drums
• Jim Gordon - drums on "Send Out Your Light"
• Alex Acuña – percussion
• Dan Collins – background vocals
• Greg X. Volz – background vocals
• Jamie Owens-Collins – background vocals
• Mylon LeFevre – background vocals on "Send Out Your Light"
• Matthew Ward – background vocals on "Send Out Your Light"

Production notes

• Produced by Dan Collins and Phil Keaggy
• Engineered by Jack Joseph Puig
• Recorded at Sound Labs, Hollywood, California, Martinsound Studios, Alhambra, California, Sound City Studios, Van Nuys, California, Smoketree Studios, Chatsworth, California
• Mixed at Sound Labs, Hollywood, California
• Mastered at Mastering Labs, Hollywood, California

Notes and References

1. Web site: Phil Keaggy - Ph'lip Side. Discogs.
2. Web site: Phil Keaggy - Ph'lip Side. Discogs.
3. Web site: Phil Keaggy - Ph'lip Side. Discogs.
4. Web site: Phil Keaggy - Ph'lip Side 1982 Reissue. Discogs.