''Getting Closer!'' is an album by guitarist

Phil Keaggy Philip Tyler Keaggy (born March 23, 1951) is an American acoustic and electric guitarist and vocalist who has released more than 55 albums and contributed to many more recordings in both the contemporary Christian music and mainstream markets. H ...

, released in 1985, on Nissi Records.

Track listing

All songs were written by

, unless otherwise noted.

LP

;Side one # "Where Has Our Love Gone" — 3:40 # "Passport" — 4:13 # "I Will Be There" — 5:00 # "Getting Closer" (Keaggy /

Richard Souther Richard Douglas Trowbridge Souther is an American keyboardist who played on several albums of contemporary Christian and chant-based music. He also placed an album in the Top 10 of '' Billboard's'' New Age Albums chart. In the mid to late 1970s, ...

/ Dave Spurr) — 4:09 # "Movie" (Keaggy /

John Mehler John Mehler (born August 27, 1948 in Long Beach, California), is a drummer for Love Song, Spirit of Creation, Noah and other bands. Biography Mehler graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1969 and soon thereafter moved to Salt Lake City wi ...

) — 4:59 ;Side two # "Sounds" — 6:05 # "Like an Island" — 3:50 # "Look Deep Inside" — 5:08 # "Riverton" (Keaggy / Souther) — 3:54 # "Reaching Out" (Keaggy / Bernadette Keaggy) — 4:31

CD (re-release)

# "Look Deep Inside" # "Where Has Our Love Gone" # "Movie" (Keaggy / Mehler) # "Like an Island" # "Riverton" (Keaggy / Souther) # "Sounds" # "Get Up and Go" (bonus track) # "Passport" # "Getting Closer" (Keaggy / Souther / Spurr) # "Sunrise" (bonus track) # "I Will Be There" # "Reaching Out" (Keaggy / Keaggy) The CD reissue adds "Get Up and Go" and "Sunrise", 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

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programming *

John Patitucci John Patitucci (born December 22, 1959) is an American jazz bassist and composer. Biography John James Patitucci was born in Brooklyn, New York. When he was 12, he bought his first bass and decided on his career. He listened to bass parts in R ...

– bass guitar on "Sounds", "Passport", and "I Will Be There" * Dave Spurr – drums on "Sounds", "Passport", and "I Will Be There" *

– keyboards on "Riverton" * Rhett Lawrence – Fairlight synthesizer programming *

– background vocals on "Movie" *

Jim Keltner James Lee Keltner (born April 27, 1942) is an American drummer and percussionist known primarily for his session work. He was characterized by Bob Dylan biographer Howard Sounes as "the leading session drummer in America".Howard Sounes. ''Down ...

– 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

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