Mia Dyson

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Arts, Performing Arts, Music

5.0 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Singer-songwriter Mia Dyson joins Rhett from Los Angeles to talk about her new record Tender Heart, the evolution of her songwriting, and the pursuit of authenticity. Mia and Rhett discuss perseverance, the necessity of making mistakes, and how to get around the negative habit of comparison. Mia shares the story of how she learned to play guitar, and explains the role of discipline in her creative process. Mia Dyson is a multiple ARIA-nominated & award-winning artist from Melbourne Australia, with a powerful grit and gravel voice and guitar-playing prowess landing her voted amongst the top 25 Australian guitarists of all time. Releasing 6 critically-acclaimed albums and touring the world with the likes of Stevie Nicks, Bonnie Raitt and Eric Clapton, Mia has cemented her place as one of the great Australian troubadours. Follow Mia @miadyson Rhett Miller website Follow Rhett @rhettmiller Wheels Off is hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Executive producer Kirsten Cluthe. Editing by Matt Dwyer. Music by Old 97’s. Episode artwork by Mark Dowd. Show logo by Tim Skirven. Distributed in partnership with Osiris Media. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Revisit previous episodes of Wheels Off with guests Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Jeff Tweedy, The Milk Carton Kids, and more. If you like what you hear, please leave us a rating or review. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Osiris.
0:02.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.0	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.0	That's when it got wheels off.
0:13.0	We started ugly ain't gonna stop.
0:16.0	Oh, she made me feel like a good God.
0:19.0	That's when it got wheels off. Mia Dyson joins me She is an girl
0:21.2	Mia Dyson joins me
0:24.7	on the new Wheels Off.
0:27.3	She is an Australian
0:29.1	singer-songwriter,
0:30.8	guitarist.
0:32.0	Has a new album out
0:33.0	called Tinder Heart
0:34.1	that's really great
0:35.5	and is a
0:37.3	new direction for her in that it's very
0:41.6	stripped down, simple, basic. She's very musically adept. Great guitar player, great songwriter,
0:50.9	knows music theory, which in my mind might be cheating, but I won't begrudge her for it
0:57.8	because her stuff is great and she is great. And this conversation that we have is one that I
1:02.8	know you're all going to enjoy, not just because of her charming Australian accent, but because
1:09.9	she's walked the road. She's learned a lot and she's totally here to
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