Bob Sellers looking forward to weekend with Mercy’s Won

By John Herndon, KentuckySings.com

Bob Sellers is Alabama-born and bleeds Crimson but Kentucky has long been part of his gospel music family. 

Sellers will be back in the Bluegrass Friday and Saturday, teaming up with Mercy’s Won for concerts in the southwest-central part of the state. They will be at Community Church at Cedar Springs in Brownsville Saturday night, Feb. 1, then at Faith Church in Glasgow the following evening.

We caught up with Sellers, who has had stints with The Kingsmen and the Old Time Preachers Quartet, earlier this week on Facebook Messenger. He’s excited to be making the trip from his home near Tuscaloosa to the Bluegrass.

“I’m looking forward to coming to Kentucky this weekend and being on the program Saturday night and Sunday night with a great Kentucky quartet called ‘Mercy’s Won,” Sellers said. “They’re a fantastic group and even greater people. We’ll each do individual sets and then we’re planning on doing some stuff together. I can almost guarantee a few good Kingsmen classics will find their way in that part. 

“I usually come to the Bluegrass State three or four times a year. I love the people the and the state is beautiful”

Sellers spent time singing regionally before getting the chance to sing lead with The Kingsmen Quartet in 2011. He was part of one of southern gospel’s beloved groups until going solo in 2018. 

While most of Sellers’ dates are in his solo ministry, he does occasionally go back to his quartet days, filling in with the Kingsmen. “That’s always a special treat,” Sellers said. “There wasn’t a minute I didn’t love being a Kingsman except for the travel! If I could have sung with them and been home more, they’d have had to run me off with a stick. 

“(The Kingsmen Quartet was) always my favorite quartet and still is. We stay in touch and I talk to Ray Dean Reese regularly. He is not just my former boss man but also one of my dearest friends in the world.”

Sellers stays incredibly busy as a soloist, singing 51 weekends in 2024. “The only reason it wasn’t 52 is because I had to cancel one weekend due to sickness,” he said.

“I had 117 events last year, so around nine or 10 a month, which is what I shoot for. I guess the farthest I ventured was up near Buffalo, N.Y. I hope to do about the same number of dates this year. I have some new-to-me places in the books that I’m looking forward to such as Nebraska. I’ll go anywhere as long as I can get there!

“I’m truly humbled that God has allowed me to fulfill a desire to sing full time and be home a lot more now for almost seven years. And that’s hard to believe, too! As of this month, I’ve officially sung solo for longer than I was with The Kingsmen. I hope to be out here singing full-time a whole lot longer, but if it were to end today, I couldn’t be anything but grateful.”

Selles has also been very busy on other fronts, releasing a Christmas album and working on two projects expected to release in 2025. Sellers is excited about the new albums. “One is a collection of my favorite gospel classics and favorite hymns and the other is a praise and worship album. I hate even calling it that because sometimes that springs negativity amongst Southern Gospel fans, but these are just great songs. I’m pulling the majority of them off previous albums, but I’m also doing a couple that are new to me and including what I feel is the greatest ‘praise and worship’ song of all time, ‘How Great Thou Art.'”

Away from the microphone, Sellers stays busy. An avid fisherman, he is constantly creating and editing content for his YouTube channel, Hook, Line and Singer. “That’s been, and is, a labor of love, but I have such a great time with it and consider it an extension of my ministry,” he says. 

And 2024 brought about a big change as Sellers’ daughter, Ellie, got married in August. “She’s doing well!” he said. “They live close by in Tuscaloosa and she is a nurse in the NICU and just loves it. Our oldest daughter, Corley, lives in Pensacola (Fla.) so we’re down to just Will at home. That’s hard for even me to believe, considering they were just babies when most people first learned anything about me as a singer.”

Sellers loves praising God and lifting people up through song. When we last saw Sellers, he was at Glensboro Baptist Church, near Lawrenceburg, for a Christmas program. He sang some old classics and engaged the crowd, as always, for a great night of worship and fellowship. 

He expects the same this weekend while being able to team with a dynamic quartet. Sellers loves his solo ministry but he also loves working with a group. In fact, he says he wouldn’t mind being able to sing with a quartet or trio “scratch the itch. Maybe put one together one weekend every five or six weeks.”  But the logistics of doing so while balancing a solo career are very difficult.

And for now, Bob Selllers is pumped about heading to the Bluegrass again!

IF YOU GO…

Bob Sellers and Mercy’s Won will be in concert Saturday, Feb. 1 at Community Church at Cedar Springs, 8825 Brownsville Road, Brownsville, Ky. The concert begins at 6 p.m., Central Time.

On Sunday, both will be in concert at Glasgow Faith Church, 3050 Old Bowling Green Road, Glasgow, Ky., at 5 p.m. Central Time. 

Both concerts are free but a love offering will be taken during the concert.

CONNECT WITH BOB SELLERS

To connect with Bob Sellers or schedule a concert, see his website, bobsellersministries.com or follow his Facebook page, Bob Sellers Ministries. You can text him at 205-331-9997 or email at office@bobsellersministries.com.