Ryan Sparks at Classic Rock Revisited recently spoke with rock legend Rick Derringer. An excerpt from the interview is available below.

CRR: Tell me a bit about what you’ve got planned for 2009. I understand you have a couple of new projects in the works, one of which is a new solo album?

Rick: "Yeah if you go to www.rickderringer.com today the first thing you’ll see and hear is little snippet from my new one called Knighted By The Blues. Also on the site you can see a brand new Christian CD that my family has just put out as well which is called We Live. We’re also working on a couple of other CD’s as we speak which are both more mainstream rock projects which borders on pop, but nonetheless it will be less Christian oriented and more mainstream. Knighted By The Blues comes out on Blues Bureau International which is a label that I’ve worked with before and this will be my fifth release for them. They expect to release worldwide towards the last week of April."

CRR: Who do you have playing on this new record; did you handle a lot of the instruments yourself?

Rick: "Well, when you get to hear the album its pretty much like a band. I wanted it to represent- when you used to go into the studio there used to be four tracks, eight tracks, twelve tracks; you were limited in some ways. Nowadays with the modern technology we’re not limited in any way so bands can go in and just go crazy. They can overdub their parts like there’s no tomorrow and in the end it’s not really anything like what you’d hear a live band play. So what I wanted this record to represent was what it would sound like and what you would hear if you went into a good blues club. It’s pretty much just guitar, bass, a real Hammond B3 organ and drums. I’m doing the guitar and bass and I have two brothers that I work with a lot are doing the organ and drums. Dave Reinhardt is the drummer and Ron is the organist and they both play with a lot of other artists as well and are pretty well known in the smooth jazz world."

Go to this location for the complete interview.