GABE WICKS | Country Gospel (Ep. 391)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome Gabe Wicks to the show. He’s been a part of the Nashville, TN creative scene for over 25 years in the film, video, and publishing worlds. He joined Thomas Nelson Publishing in 2002, which was purchased by Harper Collins in 2011. He is the VP of the Creative Services group, and he produces around 900 audiobooks annually. One of his recent projects is Country Gospel which features country music stars like Charlie Daniels, Josh Turner, Hillary Scott, Randy Owen, Ricky Skaggs, and more reading the New Testament. In this interview, we discuss how he got into the world of film and publishing, his time working with John Eldredge, why ebooks seem to have plateaued as audiobooks have exploded, why men don’t read, stories from when Johnny Cash recorded himself reading the New Testament, where the idea for Country Gospel came from, how they were able to include Charlie Daniels on the project even after his death, the artists he targeted but didn’t get for this project, upcoming projects that he has in the works, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The We know you what you what
0:15.0	you what is your story.
0:18.0	This is Undaunted Life A Man's Podcast.
0:21.0	I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
0:23.0	Let's get into it.
0:24.0	All right guys today, we've got a special guest on the show.
0:25.7	His name is Gabe Wick, so he has been a part of the Nashville, Tennessee creative scene
0:29.7	for over 25 years at this point.
0:31.3	He's worked in film, video, and the publishing world so he actually joined Thomas Nelson publishing in 2002 and they were purchased by Harper Collins in 2011 and he's been the VP of Creative Services, their Creative Services group for a very, very long time, and he spends most of his time on the audiobook side of things.
0:48.0	So this guy produces around 900 audiob books a year.
0:52.9	And when we talked in this interview,
0:54.2	you know, just a few years ago,
0:55.2	is it was less than half of that,
0:56.8	but audio books are absolutely, absolutely exploding.
0:59.9	And one of the books and one of the projects
1:01.3	that we talked about is this right here.
1:03.0	This is called Country Gospel.
1:04.4	So you're actually seeing this, these are actually CDs in a case,
1:06.8	but you can get the digital version as well.
1:08.5	But these are country music stars from yester year
1:11.7	and from today reading the New Testament of the Bible okay and so I'm actually
1:15.6	going to read through who is on this project and then I want to talk about this interview because it was very interesting
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