Mia Dyson - Parking Lots

14 January 2006 by Steven Bell

Mia Dyson has been playing around the Melbourne music scene for a number of years. She has just given us one of the best releases this year, Parking Lots.

Mia has been getting the recognise as one of the best blues Artists in the country via her performances at festivals like Blues & Roots, Falls, Port Fairy, Queenscliff and Apollo Bay.

From her past release Cold Water everyone knew about this artist's dark guitar and voice. But what she shows from this release is what an incredible songwriter/ story-teller she has developed into.

Stories of Love, pain, current relationships, past relationships, lost friends, lost of family members. It is all here.

Anyone who listens to this cd will have their own personal highlights (as there are so many great tracks on this cd); mine include the title track Parking Lots, which takes you on the journey of a failed relationship. From the first date, to becoming intermit with each other to the breaking up of the relationship, then parties trying to move on but not being able to.

My other highlight is Christmas Island, which is written about a mother's journey trying to bring her family to the promise land of Australia on the refugee boat SIEV X to meet her husband who is in the country on a temporary protection visa but never make it before drowning after the boats falls apart and sinks.

I think this is the release that will take Mia to a new audience of an overseas market. Many have compared her to Lucinda Williams, Bonnie Raitt and Gillian Welch. Mia Dyson is everything these artists are but more. The future for this early 20's women can only become brighter and brighter.

You need to buy this cd, if it is only to be able to your friends in 10 years time, when she has one countless ARIA and Grammy's and is one of the biggest blues artist in the world that you knew Mia before she was big.

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