After 22 albums and countless singles, Bryan Duncan still plays the music game hard. Times are different these days as he has gone independent. With a lot of help from his fans and his faith, he has remained true to keeping his music alive.

Duncan will headline True-Lite Christian Fellowship at 4 p.m. Saturday. Before his show, he talked about his rehabilitation, how that affected his music and how his fans have quite literally kept his music alive.

MRT: You’ve actually played here before, correct?

Duncan: It’s been a while but back then it was more a social club for Christians. We wouldn’t call them churches, but with music, they were coffee houses. Trina Lewis had me out for that show as she is for this one at True-Lite.

MRT: Can you talk about your show “Radio Rehab?”

Duncan: Sure. I was in a 12-step program and part of that is to give back. A lot of people, though, talk about what they did, and instead I talked about what I learned, which ended up being “Radio Rehab.” We’d talk about finding some real answers that I never heard. As it turned out, giving back that way was one of the most powerful parts of changing my life.

MRT: How did it do that?

Duncan: It was a 30-minute show but it was cathartic for me. It helped that music was tied into those recovery principles.

MRT: Did it affect the way you approach music now?

Duncan: Oh, yeah. I do R&B and soul and I have a strong connection with God, but the songs I’m doing now, I don’t come off like a raving lunatic about him. Which is funny because I think some people hold me under suspicion about that.

MRT: That you’re not religious or Christian enough in your music?

Duncan: Yes! I write songs from my perspective but maybe not everyone agree with that. I just wrote a song last week that I think gives encouragement but it was still born from my experience and faith in Christ.

MRT: Your sound is not the usual gospel sound.

Duncan: My stuff has always been compared to old-school club music. I love a backbeat and a groove. I grew up in a Pentecostal church, so there was a lot of gospel, but then I learned about Aretha franklin, Stevie Wonder, Al Green.

MRT: You said on Facebook that your album “Conversations” was the biggest highlight. Why is that?

Duncan: It was about gratitude. A lot of my songs before that were written out of discontent, but in that album, I had arrived at serenity.

It was also my first crowd-funded record. When music was changing from CDs to downloads, I thought I was finished. But fans raised $47,000 on Kick-starter for me to make an album. That was a whole different kind of honor.

MRT: When people see you on Saturday, what do you want them to take away from your show?

Duncan: If music does anything, it takes a weight off our shoulders. I want them to be unaware of anything else around them and maybe be moved to focus on a higher power.