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Lydia Ramsey - \\u201cI Will Wait For You\\u201d from the 2022 self-released album Like A Dream.

Lydia Ramsey is an Indianola, WA-born, Seattle-based Americana artist that\\u2019s been channeling the vintage folk sounds of Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt since 2016. Her wistful melodies and enchanting vocals and often simple in presentation: just a guitar or banjo, perhaps some twinkling piano, and showstealingly lovely coos.

Her latest record Like A Dream was released in September and hones in on the collective thoughts, anxieties, and loneliness felt during the pandemic. Our Song of the Day \\u201cI Will Wait For You\\u201d is especially relatable looking back on those lockdown days but also for many still, as she speaks to a friend - or perhaps to herself - in the depths of despair, encouraging them to keep moving forward.

\\u201cRunning through your head /What if this lasts forever,\\u201d Ramsey quavers. \\u201cIt\\u2019s bitter end in these days without being close together.\\u201d Resiliently, she presses on, hoping, waiting, and praying for the day in which things \\u201cwill be better than ever.\\u201d

Ramsey collaborated with a number of longtime musician-friends, engineer Johnny Bregar, and New York-based engineer/producer, D. James Goodwin (The National, Kevin Morby, Blitzen Trapper) on Like A Dream. Watch the intimate Jacob Rosen-directed video for \\u201cI Will Wait For You" and read the full post at KEXP.org.

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