Ellie Holcomb – Roads Unknown

We recently caught up with Ellie Holcomb to hear her story in her own words.

CCM Magazine: You’ve had quite a year! We know there have been lots of ups and downs, but how is life today—how are you?
Ellie Holcomb: I am really great. I would say grateful is probably the best way to describe things. We had a crazy December. My husband was in the hospital for five days with viral meningitis. He came home two days before Christmas. It was insane, but one of the sweetest Christmases we’ve had.

CCM: The new project is beautiful, but we know that it was an emotionally wrenching one to make. Did you plan on following your debut with an album of this nature?
EH: After the first record, people asked me what I was going to do next. I really didn’t know. I just knew I was going to do life and be in His Word. I didn’t know if I’d make another record or not. The last two years have been really heavy in our community. There has been a lot of sorrow, suffering, and loss. I wrote this record as a way of singing God’s promises to my own heart; of seeing God meet our community in unbearable grief and sorrow.

CCM: The title is a gripping and interesting choice. Obviously, Red Sea Road must have something to do with Moses and the Israelites. How did you come to this idea for an entire album? Was it the overall story of the Exodus, or did something in particular grab you?
EH: It’s an interesting story. In one sense, it’s God delivering His people. They’d been set free with lots of suffering behind them, but now, there was an army and imminent death at their back. The sea was in front. If I’m with the Israelites, I know I’d be thinking that I would die if I just stayed there, but it could also kill me to walk through an ocean. But they are told something so powerful—to be still and let the Lord fight for them. They had no choice but to trust in an impossible situation.

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