Getting Closer!
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{{Infobox album
| name = Getting Closer!
| type = studio
| artist = Phil Keaggy
| cover = KeaggyCloserOrig.jpg
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| released = 1985
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| studio = {{hlist|Weddington Studios, North Hollywood, California|Whitefield Studio, Santa Ana, California|Peace in the Valley, Arieta, California}}
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| label = Nissi
| producer = Smitty Price, Phil Keaggy
| prev_title = Underground
| prev_year = 1983
| next_title = Way Back Home
| next_year = 1986
| misc = {{Extra album cover
| header = 1999 re-release cover art
| cover = GettingCloser.jpg
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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{{cite web|title=Phil Keaggy – Getting Closer (Vinyl, Album, LP)|url=https://www.discogs.com/Phil-Keaggy-Getting-Closer/release/2294508|publisher=Discogs|accessdate=March 29, 2016}}
- "Where Has Our Love Gone" — 3:40
- "Passport" — 4:13
- "I Will Be There" — 5:00
- "Getting Closer" (Keaggy / Richard Souther / Dave Spurr) — 4:09
- "Movie" (Keaggy / John Mehler) — 4:59
- "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",{{cite web|title=Phil Keaggy – Getting Closer (CD, Album)|url=https://www.discogs.com/Phil-Keaggy-Getting-Closer/release/4188566|publisher=Discogs|accessdate=March 29, 2016}} 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 LinnDrum 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 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
- 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