Turning Heads speaks to LA-based, Australian songwriter and musician Mia Dyson. Mia's latest release is Parking Lots (Revisited), which includes updated versions of five songs from her 2005 LP, Parking Lots.

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The thorough blues, soul and honky tonk revisions on Parking Lots (Revisited) were put together with producers Erin “Syd” Sidney and Daniel Wright as well as double bass player Matt Aronoff and keyboardist Lee Pardini.

The original Parking Lots won the ARIA award for Best Blues and Roots album, an award Mia’s 2003 debut album, Cold Water, had also been nominated for. That’s a giveaway of where Mia’s music has always been categorised, though there's long been more to her artistry than what that genre tag might suggest.

This is best exemplified by Mia's latest solo album, 2018's If I Said Only So Far I Take It Back, a pop album on which her artistic vision outshines the resonance of her influences.

Turning heads is recorded on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation; the traditional custodians of the land. I pay my respects to their elders past and present, and acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded.