Although anything but a musical, the movie “Reagan” has some moments that give cause for those who remember 1980s music to smile. A brief excerpt from “Every Moment” by legacy Christian rockers DeGarmo & Key makes an appearance, as does Genesis’ “Land of Confusion” with its vicious anti-Reagan puppetry video. One moment is more subtle: the intro to “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” which, unlike the aforementioned songs, is a new recording by a somewhat surprising choice, not in terms of the required six-string dexterity needed for accurately performing Slash’s iconic riff but the person chosen to do so. Namely, Phil Keaggy.
I caught up with Keaggy, who I last spoke to in the early 1990s when I was an active music journalist covering Christian music, on a relatively quiet afternoon for a video chat. I say relatively quiet, as Keaggy and his wife…
