Parsons recorded her third studio album , '' Drylands '' at Surgery Studios . The album was engineered by Lee Prebble who along with mixing engineer Oliver Harmer , won the 2015 New Zealand Music Awards for best engineer for the album . One of the songs Parsons wrote was a duet , and she decided to cold e-mail Ron Sexsmith to see if he would perform the other half of the song " Do n't Wait " , and he agreed . Another song on the album , " Get Out Alive " , is the result of her writing about a dangerous car accident she was in where the car rolled four times and was totaled , but she walked out without serious injury , but found herself re-evaluating her life for a time
2015 New Zealand Music Awards
2015 New Zealand Music Awards
Mel Parsons