Mia Dyson Takes You Through Reimagined Songs From Her ARIA Award Winning Album

Australian songwriter Mia Dyson released her second studio album, Parking Lots, in 2005 which went on to win the Best Blues & Roots category at the ARIAs that year. 

To celebrate its 15th anniversary, the Daylesford artist has reimagined five tracks from the record which are "stripped to their core and dressed again" in a new EP.

Dyson sat down with The Music to go through Parking Lots (Revisited).

Roll Me Out

Some friends and I used to perform in a women’s prison in Western Melbourne. I got to know a few women quite well and over time they shared their stories with me. I wrote Roll Me Out thinking of the story of one woman in particular who had been incarcerated and then fell in love with another prisoner.

Rivers Wide

This song is for and about my mother. She poured so much of her sweet self into loving us kids and I wanted to honour and celebrate her for the passion and devotion she used to give us the chance at a meaningful life.

Parking Lots

Parking Lots is a simple love song. Celebrating the simplicity of love and highlighting the fear of losing it.

Choose

I saw that there were many things that I had no control over in my life, that no one has control over most of the circumstances of their lives. And yet there’s an opening each moment in how I react to my circumstances that gives me some degree of freedom. Choose was an attempt to explore that and reassure myself and others that we are as well as we want to be.

I Meant Something to You Once

I had my heart broken first not by a lover, but by a friend in high school. It stung a lot and a long time and eventually ended up in this song. Before, when we were about 13, my friend picked up the guitar and started writing. She inspired me to do the same and I’m eternally grateful.

To celebrate the release, Dyson will head out on a headline tour of Australia next year. 

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