Time & Perspective Quote by Rick Derringer

There is a career arc packed into that one sentence: a veteran rock guitarist narrating his catalog like a spiritual audit. Derringer name-checks the "Blues Bureau records" not just as a discography marker, but as shorthand for a certain late-90s reality many legacy players faced: the blues circuit as both refuge and revenue stream, a genre that confers credibility even when the mainstream spotlight has moved on. It signals craft, grit, and continuity.

Then he pivots hard to testimony language: "Christian roots", "born again". That phrase is loaded in American culture, especially for musicians whose public identity was built in the secular, hedonistic ecosystem of rock. "Born again" is less a private belief statement than a public rebrand with a built-in narrative engine: before/after, fall/redemption, clarity after drift. He’s telling fans and industry people how to read what comes next - new music, new choices, maybe new boundaries.

The subtext is that the blues years were a chapter of wandering: musically respectable, spiritually incomplete. He doesn’t condemn the blues outright, but the contrast implies a hierarchy of meaning. There’s also a quiet bid for legitimacy in a different market. Christian audiences and labels tend to value conversion stories; they function like credentials. Derringer’s phrasing balances autobiography with positioning: I did the records you know me for, but I’m not staying there. I’m being rewritten, and I want you to update the storyline.