Close as You Get
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{{Infobox album
| name = Close as You Get
| type = studio
| artist = Gary Moore
| cover = CloseAsYouGetCover.jpg
| alt =
| released = 21 May 2007
| recorded = October 2006–February 2007
| venue =
| studio = Sarm Hookend, Sphere Studios
| genre = Blues, blues rock
| length = 51:48
| label = Eagle
| producer = Gary Moore, Ian Taylor
| prev_title = The Platinum Collection
| prev_year = 2006
| next_title = Bad for You Baby
| next_year = 2008
}}
Close as You Get is sixteenth solo album by Northern Irish blues guitarist and singer Gary Moore.{{cite web|title=Gary Moore – Close As You Get|url=https://www.discogs.com/Gary-Moore-Close-As-You-Get/release/1122750|website=Goodreads|publisher=discogs.com|accessdate=29 October 2017}} The album reunited Moore with his former Thin Lizzy colleague, drummer Brian Downey who played on all the tracks.
{{Album reviews
|rev1 = Allmusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}} {{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1039156|first=Hal|last=Horowitz}}
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Track listing
{{tracklist
| title1 = If the Devil Made Whiskey
| writer1 = Moore
| length1 = 2:48
| title2 = Trouble at Home
| writer2 = Moore
| length2 = 5:00
| title3 = Thirty Days
| writer3 = Chuck Berry
| length3 = 3:16
| title4 = Hard Times
| writer4 = Moore
| length4 = 3:04
| title5 = Have You Heard?
| writer5 = John Mayall
| length5 = 5:49
| title6 = Eyesight to the Blind
| writer6 = Sonny Boy Williamson
| length6 = 2:34
| title7 = Evenin{{'-}}
| writer7 = Royce Swain
| length7 = 5:47
| title8 = Nowhere Fast
| writer8 = Moore
| length8 = 3:38
| title9 = Checkin' Up on My Baby
| writer9 = Sonny Boy Williamson
| length9 = 5:24
| title10 = I Had a Dream
| writer10 = Moore
| length10 = 7:16
| title11 = Sundown
| writer11 = Son House
| length11 = 7:08
}}
Personnel
- Gary Moore - vocals, guitar, dobro on "Sundown"
- Brian Downey - drums
- Vic Martin - keyboards
- Pete Rees - bass
- Mark Feltham - harmonica on "Hard Times" and "Checkin' Up on My Baby"
- Produced by Gary Moore and Ian Taylor
- Engineered and mixed by Ian Taylor, assisted by Jonathan Tayler-Webb.
- Recorded and mixed at Sarm Hookend, except "I Had a Dream" backing track, recorded at Sphere Studios by Franco Cameli, assisted by Joshua Blair.
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