So many people have used it as their first dance. It’s one of those songs that our fans over the years have come to really love. When I listen back to that song, it still holds pretty well from the day that I wrote it, so I’m grateful for that. It’s one of the first songs that I wrote on my own that we released, where I was taking the lead vocal. Is that a song that still resonates with you both, especially since you’ve had this longer journey now, together with The Neighbors and as individual artists?ĮH: It really does. It’s our snapshot of the years when this was happening.ĪS: You revisited “Hung the Moon” after more than a decade.
It’s the soundtrack of what it sounded like to come together again, musically. It’s a beautiful soundtrack to our musical journeys coming back together that overlaps with not only the home that we know and made together. Drew and I have both been artists in our own right and for a lot of years, we had this sort of wide orbit that crossed over, mainly at home. It’s not a record, per se, but more of a compilation, a collection of songs over time.Įllie Holcomb: It’s a scrapbook. Everything was recorded over different periods of time. It’s been a fan favorite, and it was recorded when she was still part of the band. We also had the song “Hung the Moon,” which Ellie’s been begging us to re-record for years. We never put them out on actual physical copies.
Though all of the songs were made at different points in time, what is it that threads these nine songs together?ĭrew Holcomb: In 2018, I realized that we had not toured together in almost five or six years, since we had gone our separate ways, creatively, between those years, so we said “let’s go do an acoustic tour kind of thing.” When we decided to do a tour, we also started writing a couple of new songs and in the first year we had “You and Me,” and then we wrote “Fields of Gold,” and a couple more like “Electricity” and “Love Anyway” and “On the Road Again.” We just had like this pile of songs that we put out the streaming services. and make new music.ĭrew and Ellie spoke to American Songwriter about collecting the songs for Coming Home, writing together again, revisiting “Hung the Moon” with a “new voice,” and the fine art of balancing three kids and music.Īmerican Songwriter: The past three years really provided all the pieces of Coming Home: A Collection of Songs. Now ready to hit the road again, family in tow, for The You and Me Tour: An Evening with Drew & Ellie Holcomb, named after the couple’s first single, “You and Me,” in 2018, the Holcombs are set to play two months-worth of dates in major cities throughout the U.S.
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