Joy Belle

Their story

Tabernacle fire, 21st-century soul. Joy Belle sings from the trenches — “Should’ve Lost Mind”, “Mercy Keeps Moving”, “Be Patient With Me” — and “Another Door Just Opened” trades easy platitudes for the parts of a testimony most records skip: the relapse, the waiting, the forgiveness that took years. She came up on the corner revivals, not the choir stand, and it shows: she sings like someone talking to one person rather than to a room.