Chords for B-Sides On-Air: Interview - Donna Missal Talks 'This Time', Bartending

This time is the forthcoming debut album from Donna Missal comes out in September and she joins us here in San Francisco
Hello, welcome to our fine city.
Oh, thank you so much.
I think this is like your second date with the tour of King Princess
Yeah, we had this is our third show tonight third show.
Yeah, wait a second.
I thought it was only two so we did
Portland I think Seattle was first and then Portland and last night we played at the rickshaw
You're scaring me because I was talking about the two shows in San Francisco.
Oh, I'm sorry.
No.
Yeah
This is [B] my second show in San Francisco.
Yeah, how'd it [Abm] go yesterday?
It was awesome
San Francisco really shows up such a good crowd.
Everyone was so
Just a really passionate young group of people that show up for King Princess and I've just been really really lucky to be a part of that
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Lot to [G] talk about with you
I'm very fascinated with your history how you got started and your background and stuff off-camera
You and I were just chatting about being homeschooled.
Yes cooking at a young age.
Oh, yeah
[D] But the bullet points are that your dad owned a recording studio.
Yes for the longest time he did and then he said
You know what?
I have family now.
I'm gonna call it quits
But then [C] he was like, well, I'm gonna keep all this stuff
Yeah, and kids you [Bb] go make some recordings for grandma and grandpa.
Yeah, so forth, right?
So yeah, what age did you start actually recording stuff?
[G] I was four when we started
Making Christmas albums for my grandparents.
Yeah, and my dad was so [Gm] involved and got us all involved
Yeah, you know [G] I didn't I didn't know at the time what what I had at my disposal
[Gm] Because I was such a young kid [G] but
He had such [C] great equipment and now being older [Bb] and having spent some time in studios and seeing
[G] How lucky I was to be around those microphones [B] and those instruments.
Um, [Eb] yeah, I mean it was such a makeshift space
He really [Cm] threw it together
But yeah, that was that was when I started [Gm] singing and those were my first memories of being in the studio environment
[Eb] You were bartending for quite some time and [Cm] you were doing this music on the side
Did you tell [Gm] people when you were bartending like yeah, I'm just doing this to get [Eb] by I'm gonna be a singer
So I was really embarrassed about [Cm] it
I didn't want anyone to know that I [Gm] was trying to be a musician because there's that fear that if you don't do anything with
It then you're just [Eb] another one of those people, you know that just [Cm] like thinks, you know, there's something else
I think that had a lot to [A] do with it too is like
_ [Bb] Displaying my confidence to me
[Gb] meant that I was
self [Ab]-involved or pretentious and I didn't want to be perceived that way and I [G] think women deal with this all the [Ab] time where you
worry that if you [Em] come out
[G] of your shell and and
[Em] You're you know
[N] displaying, you know who you are that it means that you're looking [C] for some kind of attention and
_ [Bb] It took it was a big hurdle for me to get over that [Gb] but yeah while I was bartending
I like [G] tried to keep it from people as long as I could
Debut albums [Abm] are always a culmination of a lot of time before absolutely other people hear it
Oh, yeah, keep lying.
We know is quite old
Right, but it's gone through [A] iterations though.
Yes, that's right.
Well, I joined
Forces with this amazing label and I'm on harvest records.
The record will be coming out on harvest records and
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Yeah, I just
Had the opportunity to recut the song because they wanted to give it a new life
They wanted to re-release the song and you know at that time I was in the middle of making my record
I was [E] making it with my producer Tim Anderson [Bb] and we were in the midst of that process [Am] and I wanted the song
To exemplify the the sonic structure that we were creating for the [Bb] album
So I thought it was only right to redo it and do it with all of the people who made the record [Dm] with me
So that was really special
[Am] What have you learned [C] with the collaborations that you've done?
You just named a few [G] people there and of course people will that Google you and then they'll see that you did something with Macklemore
Oh, yeah, right.
What did you [C] take away from?
In [Gb] general those experiences because it takes it takes time
Like you said to open up to somebody and songwriting is such an intimate thing
It's not just like okay, you know, I suck and you know, [G] I'm really vulnerable right now
So let's write something, you [B] know, it's not as easy as that.
Well
luckily
I've had the opportunity to song write with a lot of really seasoned people who have sort of been through it [Ab] and
were able to sort of
Shelter me through the process
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Take me into the fold and say like hey, this is how you write a song with other people that you don't know very well
Yeah, I [D] I wrote a lot of this record with [C] a woman who's become a good [Dm] friend of mine
Sharon Bennett and who's an artist that I have always loved
and
she was [D] an integral part of my learning process because [Dm] she's _
[F] such an example of
Strength and coming into your own and being [Dm] multifaceted and her songwriting is so beautiful and so personal
So I [Bb] learned so much from writing with her.
I'm gonna say it right [N] here
I don't think you're gonna be bartending anytime soon.
I hope not [Dm] but if you do, what's your go-to drink?
What's your specialty if I was a terrible bartender?
Oh, really like I think my personality got me through
Because I could talk to people but if they [C] asked me for a drink
I would just make it up [Dm] like if you asked me and I did this for years
[Bb] Yeah, if you asked me for like a screwdriver, which I mean, I know now it's orange juice and vodka
But you know I had I would just throw something together.
I like here you go.
I hope [C] you like it
I made a lot of Jack and Cokes, you know, that's easy.
Yeah, exactly
I don't really have [Bb] like I don't really have like a drink
So if the
Bunch of kids have that one person just turned 21 and be all like, all right
She just turned 21.
Give us your specialty, right?
You would just glop together [N] a whole bunch throw something together and just say
Happy birthday
_ But then you're definitely not bartending anyone yeah, no, no one's going to hire me after this
You got a great career ahead of you, thank you so much
I know a lot of people agree with me on that and report to your debut.
Oh, thank you so much
Great to meet you.
Great to meet you, too.
It's called this time comes out September 7th
This is Donna [Ab] missile and you're watching b-sides on [Dbm] air
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