Joyann Parker already had the title for her made-during-the-pandemic album. “Out of the Dark.” She just hadn’t written the tune.
“I wasn’t going to have a title track,” the singer/guitarist/pianist explained. “I always had that imagery for a long time for this record, with a bunch of healing I’ve been doing of my own scars — figuring out who I am, who I wanna be, leaving this old person behind.