The 10 Best Ellie Holcomb Songs of All-Time

Ellie Holcomb is an American musician born and raised in Nashville, TN. She is the daughter of Brown Bannister, a notable producer in the Contemporary Christian music scene.

As a result, it shouldn’t be surprising to learn that Holcomb herself moves through the same. She was in the same band as her husband, Drew Holcomb. Since then, she has launched a solo career. Holcomb has carved out a respectable foothold in modern American music, as shown by her numerous releases.

Here is our opinion of the ten best Ellie Holcomb songs ever released:

10. “Color”

“Color” is a single from Holcomb’s third studio album Canyon. As such, it is a more recent release, having come out in 2021. Perhaps unsurprisingly, “Color” is a very religious song.

Supposedly, Holcomb got the idea for it from her mother, who found her religion so inspirational that it made the world seem as though it had gone from monochrome to color.

9. “I Don’t Want to Miss It”

Canyon had six singles rather than a more standard number. “I Don’t Want to Miss It” was the fourth song in this sequence. It is effectively a prayer. Something that becomes obvious with the first worded line.

After all, that mentions the burning bush, which was the form God is supposed to have taken when he showed himself to Moses on Mount Horeb. Holcomb herself has outright confirmed this intent.

8. “Mine”

“Mine” is notable because Holcomb performed it with her husband, Drew Holcomb. Chances are good interested individuals will guess that it is a love song. However, it isn’t the kind of love song that first comes to mind when most people think of a wife-and-husband team performing a duet.

Instead, “Mine” is directed at the Holcombs’ daughter. The song is more-or-less in line with what one would expect. Even so, it is executed well enough for it to stand out.

7. “I Will Carry You”

Holcomb and her co-songwriter intended “I Will Carry You” as a song for their daughters. The ballad is a statement of support, expressing their intent to always be there for their children.

That said, it shouldn’t be surprising to learn that “I Will Carry You” has religious undertones. It is a song about parents supporting their children, so it wasn’t a giant conceptual leap for it to also be a song about God offering the same to humans.

6. “Constellations”

Once upon a time, people used the stars to navigate. Even though they have long since been replaced, they retain much of their symbolic meaning. Here, the stars aren’t literal.

“Constellations” is a song about people coming to terms with the hardness and harshness they sometimes run into. There are no prizes for guessing who Holcomb has in mind for the song’s intended source of guidance for those in need.

5. “As Sure As the Sun”

Strictly speaking, the sun isn’t 100 percent a sure thing. Our sun is expected to die in a few billion years. Moreover, even the longest-lived stars have caps to their trillions-long lifespans.

Still, the sun might as well be 100 percent sure because a few billion years is long enough to make the issue a point of curiosity and nothing more. “As Sure As the Sun” was Holcomb’s first single in her solo career.

It used titular imagery to describe the extent of God’s love in the same way that a conventional pop song might use nature metaphors to describe the strength of the viewpoint character’s feelings.

4. “Hope Is Alive”

“Hope Is Alive” isn’t Christmas music. Still, it is a suitable song for such occasions because it is an apparent reference to Jesus’s birth. The song did well enough in 2014, as shown by how it peaked at the number 48th position on the Billboard Hot Christian Songs chart.

3. “Red Sea Road”

“Red Sea Road” was the title track for Holcomb’s second studio album. Once again, it refers to a well-known story. Specifically, this would be the one in which God parted the Red Sea so that the Israelites could escape their pursuers on foot.

Given this, interested individuals should have no problem guessing this is a song of hope. Essentially, it says people should put their faith in God to look out for them, meaning they should persevere even when they fear what lies ahead.

2. “Find You Here”

“Find You Here” was another single from Red Sea Road. As such, it makes sense that it is another song concerned with hope in seemingly hopeless situations.

The song outright described God’s presence swallowing such thoughts and feelings, thus providing comfort where there was none before.

Something that seems to have caught on with listeners because “Find You Here” secured the number 29 spot on the Billboard Hot Christian Songs chart, which was higher than the position of the title track itself.

1. “The Broken Beautiful”

The idea of broken being beautiful isn’t an uncommon one. Sometimes, people say something broken is beautiful because of an acceptance of the impermanence of worldly things.

Other times, the sentiment comes from the notion that the imperfect still possess beauty and other kinds of worth, which can appeal to those feeling down about themselves for whatever reason.

In this single from As Sure As the Sun, Holcomb sang about how one’s imperfections can become a way for people to connect with the divine. A message that reached the number 20 position on the Billboard Hot Christian Songs chart in 2014.

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