Getting Closer!

Getting Closer!
Studio album by Phil Keaggy
Released	1985
Studio	Weddington Studios, North Hollywood, CA White Field Studio, Santa Ana, CA Peace in the Valley, Arieta, CA
Label	Nissi
Producer	Smitty Price, Phil Keaggy
Phil Keaggy chronology
Underground (1983) Getting Closer! (1985) Way Back Home (1986)
1999 re-release cover art

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, drummulator programming and vocals
• Smitty Price – keyboards and Linn Drum 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 (company)|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 notes

• 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, CA - recording studio
• White Field Studio, Santa Ana, CA - recording studio
• Peace in the Valley, Arieta, CA - recording studio
• Steve Hall - mastering at Futuredisc

References