Cold Water (album)

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Cold Water
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Studio album by
Mia Dyson
ReleasedMay 2003 (2003-05)
StudioSing Sing
Genre
Label Backdoor/MGM
Producer Mia Dyson, Lloyd Barratt
Mia Dyson chronology
Cold Water
(2003)		 Parking Lots
(2005)

Cold Water is the debut album from Australian blues and roots musician, Mia Dyson, and was released in May 2003. [1] [2]

Contents

Cold Water highlights Dyson's song writing and musicianship and a collaboration with Dean Addison and Carl Pannuzzo. [3] Apart from the vocals, Dyson plays electric, baritone, acoustic and lap steel guitars as well as piano. It introduces guest musicians, Steve Hesketh (Sime Nugent, Dan Brodie) on Hammond and piano, Sime Nugent and Kylie Auldist on backing vocals and Jaimi Faulkner on guitar. Included on the album is "St Kilda Lament" written by Ashley Davies, who played a solo on acoustic guitar.

The album was co-produced by Dyson with Lloyd Barratt, her sometime domestic partner, in a mud brick farmhouse just outside Daylesford. [2] [4] It was mixed by Craig Pilkington at Audrey Studio in Richmond.

The Age 's Patrick Donovan opined, "[she] blew audiences away with her powerfully emotive voice and dynamic guitar playing on her debut album Cold Water. But the songwriting was a little one-dimensional." [5] At the ARIA Music Awards of 2003 it was nominated for Best Blues and Roots album. [6]

Track listing

  1. "Lonely"
  2. "Return"
  3. "Roll On"
  4. "Through This Town"
  5. "Precious Thing"
  6. "The Judgement Song"
  7. "Sweet Struggle"
  8. "Tali Karng"
  9. "Deilaphelia"
  10. "St Kilda Lament"
  11. "Make a Stand"

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References

  1. ↑ Dyson, Mia (2003), Cold Water, Shock Records (Distributor), archived from the original on 7 November 2017, retrieved 5 December 2017
  2. 1 2 "Releases :: Cold Water". Australian Music Online . Australia Council for the Arts. Archived from the original on 26 July 2008. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  3. ↑ Dwyer, Michael (January 2004). "Mia Dyson – Australian Poet". Red Room Poetry. Red Room. Archived from the original on 24 September 2007. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  4. ↑ Mathieson, Craig (25 September 2014). "Mia Dyson's Move to US Harder - and Sweeter - than She Expected". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  5. ↑ Donovan, Patrick (22 April 2005). "In Gear – Music". The Age . Fairfax Media. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  6. ↑ "ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 2003: 17th Annual ARIA Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
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