Description
Underground: Private Collection – Volume 1 is the seventh solo album by the American singer, songwriter, and guitarist Phil Keaggy, released on Nissi Records in April 1983, distributed by both Sparrow Records and MCA Records. This home recording was produced, arranged, and recorded by Phil Keaggy at his home basement in Leawood, Kansas; with all instruments and vocals provided by Keaggy. Mixed by Bob Cotton and Keaggy at Weddington Studios in North Hollywood, California.
The album track “The Survivor” was later re-recorded by Phil Keaggy on his 1995-album True Believer.
Contained in this jacket is a collection of songs that were written between autumn and spring 1982-83. The original list contained more than enough selections for what was intended to be a double album and with a little help from my friends, we whittled the tunes down to accommodate this single LP.
I recorded the entire collection in the basement of my home in Leawood, Kansas using a Teac 144 Porta-Studio, various guitars, synthesizers, and a Roland rhythm machine. We then took the 4-track cassette tapes and transferred to a multi-track machine at Weddington Studio in North Hollywood, California, adding only the reinforcement of a Roger Linn drum machine to fatten the tracks.
The uniqueness of this album lies in the fact that all the tunes were recorded at my leisure, in a comfortable setting, without realizing they would be used for an official record release. Because of this factor, I feel there is a freedom and confidence expressed in these songs which sets them apart from some of my other recordings. I sincerely hope you enjoy them as much as I did writing and recording them.
My initial listeners were those of family and friends – and now we gladly extend them to you. – Phil Keaggy [note on the back of the album cover jacket]
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LP tracklist:
Side One
A1. “What A Love” – 3:56
A2. “Ransom” (Instrumental) – 3:47
A3. “Deadline” – 3:36
A4. “Think About It” – 3:36
A5. “One In A Million” – 4:36
A6. “I Know Someone” – 3:41
Side Two
B1. “The Two Of You” – 4:56
B2. “Paid In Full” (Instrumental) – 4:20
B3. “What You Are Inside” – 3:35
B4. “Follow Me On” – 3:24
B5. “The Survivor” – 5:12
Note: Simultaneously released on 8-track tape, cassette, and 12-inch vinyl LP with the cassette version featuring two bonus tracks: “A Glorious Sunset” and “When I Say I Love You”. Re-issued on CD by Canis Major in 2000 featuring all 12 tracks (with slightly different cover artwork). These recordings are also part of Keaggy’s Back Room Trax cassette tape series. (A slightly altered version of the original Underground LP was included on Back Room Trax, Private Collection Volume 1, released on cassette only in 1989.) Available at Bandcamp: https://philkeaggy.bandcamp.com/album/back-room-trax-vol-1-underground
A full-page advertisement for Phil Keaggy’s Underground was featured in the June 1984 issue of CCM Magazine.
CREDITS. Recorded at Phil Keaggy’s home basement, Leawood, Kansas. Additional recording and mixdown at Wedding studios, North Hollywood, CA. Engineered by Phil Keaggy. Additional overdubs by Mike Ross and Wally Grant. Mixed by Phil Keaggy and Bob Cotton. Arranged and produced by Phil Keaggy. All instruments and vocals by Phil Keaggy. Additional vocals by Bernadette Keaggy featured on “Think About It”.
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