It all started for Ritter, creating music that is, back when he says as a teenager hearing Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan's "Girl from the North Country" on his parents' copy of Nashville Skyline. Ritter says attempted to write songs on a lute that his father had built eventually abandoning the lute and buying his first guitar at K-Mart in the small country town of Moscow, Idaho.
Ritter makes his way to The Heights Theatre in Northwest Houston this weekend.
His new music is called "Fever Breaks". The singer/songwriter says he had an obligation to address current events with his songwriting. With that Ritter also has noted being a new father has also influenced his creativity. Ritter recently gave an interview to David McClister of Charlottesville, VA's The Daily Progress.com.
“The Torch Committee,” for example, looks at the infiltration of an authoritarian mindset, developing a frightening character that comes from somewhere between Franz Kafka and Hannah Arendt."
“I wanted to write the song as a warning,” Ritter said. “Authoritarianism doesn’t just come with tanks and guns. It 
comes with paperwork. It comes with the disassociation of the individual from their own identity. It’s stripped away through bureaucracy.”
“There are ways that having kids opens your heart and makes you more vulnerable and more willing to take chances in your work,” he said. “It’s kept me from focusing too much on myself or whatever grand schemes I’ve had. You focus on your kid.