Getting Closer!

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

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]
  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

Production

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