Seattle's Lydia Ramsey has been praised for the vintage quality of her dynamic voice and the pure emotions in her songwriting, drawing comparisons to Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt. Her original music has been celebrated worldwide by NPR Music, The Americana Music Association and featured on HBO’s hit series, ‘Somebody Somewhere.’

Premiering on NPR's First Watch, her first single, "Ghosts", is a wonderfully southern-inspired folk tune that showcases Lydia's natural fingerpicking guitar ability, her banjo playing and her lovely vocal harmonies.   Her songs “Show Me The Stars” and “Shake Me” from her debut album, Bandita, were featured on KEXP's Song of the Day and Music That Matters Podcasts. Bandita was also selected as one of the Top 10 Albums of 2017 by KBCS 91.3. Returning from her first international tour in the U.K., she received praise from the UK Americana Music Association describing her music as an “enticing combination of folk and country that sparkles as modern Americana.”  

Ramsey’s inspiring new album, Like A Dream, is exquisite Folk/Americana, reflecting on a time when the world faced a new normal of sheltering in place, masking, lockdowns, and speaks to the loneliness of isolation, when life seemed to stand still. The cathartic emotion in the album provides a comforting sense of union and rekindled joy through our collective experiences.

In bringing this new body of work to life, 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), to create a dreamlike soundscape of intimate storytelling and transcendental musical ingenuity that touches the most honest depths of the heart.

Born at home in the wooded beach town of Indianola, WA, Lydia was raised in a house scattered with instruments, from guitars and mandolins, to clarinets and accordions.  With an upbringing rooted deeply in musical discovery and invention, her earliest inspirations came from her exploration on the piano, through the music of Chopin, Bill Evans, Debussy and Bach.  When she began playing guitar, she drew inspiration from traditional folk artists. These influences shaped the foundation of her songwriting, combining the melodies of classical and jazz composers, with the storytelling and harmonies rooted in folk music.