In 2025, I recorded a bunch of songs with some great musicians. So this year, I will be releasing those songs, one by one, as is the style these days.

This is the first of the group. It’s a lovely track about staying up late and sleeping late with someone special.

Joining me on the song are Samuel Fox on lap steel, Josué González on piano, Pedro Pardal on drums, and Clare Dove backing up my vocals.

I hope you like music or me enough to spend $2 on this song. For me, that’s the equivalent of more than 600 people streaming it. Certainly seems worth all the trouble these days, right?

Track listing:
1 / Time Is Wasted (3:40)

Credits:
Guitar, vocal: Scott Ritcher
Double bass: Itaiguara Brandão
Piano: Josué González
Lap steel: Samuel Fox
Drums: Pedro Pardal
Vocals: Clare Dove

Mixed and mastered by Brandon Bankes in Nashville, Tennessee

Cover photo: Scott Ritcher

Lyrics:

It’s time to get up and go to work
I don’t want to go to work
It’s time to get dressed and catch the train
I don’t want to catch that train

I want to sleep until lunch
Spark a doob after that
Maybe take a disco nap
Until I go out and honky tonk with you

My time is wasted
My time is all wasted
Except the time I’m wasting with you

It’s time to wrap it up
I don’t want to wrap it up
It’s time to shut it down and pay the tab
I don’t want to pay the tab

I want to stay out until four
I want to miss the last train
Walk home under the stars
Stumble through the streets arm in arm

My time is wasted
My time is all wasted
Except the time I’m wasting with you