Double Live (Garth Brooks album)

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Double Live
Doublelivecover.jpg
Live album by
Garth Brooks
ReleasedNovember 17, 1998
Recorded1996–1998
Genre
Length
  • 47:08 (disc one)
  • 53:03 (disc two)
LabelCapitol Nashville
ProducerAllen Reynolds
Garth Brooks chronology
The Limited Series
(1998) 		Double Live
(1998) 		Garth Brooks...In the Life of Chris Gaines
(1999)
Double Live: 25th Anniversary Edition
Double Live cover (25th).jpg
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic2.5/5 stars[1]
Entertainment WeeklyB–[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide2/5 stars[3]

Double Live is the first live album by American country music singer Garth Brooks. It was released on November 17, 1998 and is a two-disc compilation of live songs, recorded during Brooks' 1996–98 world tour.

The album broke the first-week sales record at the time, previously held by Pearl Jam's Vs., when it sold 1,085,000 copies.[4] It became the best-selling live album in the US since Eric Clapton's Unplugged in 1992, later becoming the best-selling live album in United States music history. It has been certified 21× Platinum by the RIAA (10.5 million shipped as it is a double album), and is the seventh most shipped album in the US.[5] By 2012, it had sold 6,017,000 copies.[6]

Double Live was re-released on September 5, 2014, as Double Live: 25th Anniversary Edition, exclusive to GhostTunes.[7]

Content[]

The song "Tearin' It Up (And Burnin' It Down)" was originally slated for Brooks' 1997 album Sevens, and "Wild as the Wind" was intended for a duets album with Trisha Yearwood.[8]

Track listing[]

Disc one[]

  1. "Callin' Baton Rouge" (Dennis Linde) – 2:58
  2. "Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House" (Warren Haynes, Dennis Robbins, Bobby Boyd) – 2:44
  3. "Shameless" (Billy Joel) – 3:55
  4. "Papa Loved Mama" (Kim Williams, Garth Brooks) – 2:51
  5. "The Thunder Rolls (The Long Version)" (Pat Alger, Brooks) – 4:48
  6. "We Shall Be Free" (Stephanie Davis, Brooks) – 4:43
  7. "Unanswered Prayers" (Alger, Larry Bastian, Brooks) – 3:41
  8. "Standing Outside the Fire" (Jenny Yates, Brooks) – 3:43
  9. "Longneck Bottle" (Rick Carnes, Steve Wariner) – 2:42
  10. "It's Your Song" (Pam Wolfe, Benita Hill) – 4:18
  11. "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" (Randy Taylor, Brooks) – 3:12
  12. "The River" (Victoria Shaw, Brooks) – 3:48
  13. (Untitled Track) – 0:061
  14. "Tearin' It Up (And Burnin' It Down)" (Kent Blazy, Williams, Brooks) – 3:56
    • 1Track 13 is six seconds of crowd noise, added to make the final track on this disc #14.

The 25th Anniversary Edition of Double Live includes the following additional tracks:

Disc two[]

  1. "Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)" (Williams, Blazy, Brooks) – 4:45
  2. "Rodeo" (Bastian) – 3:44
  3. "The Beaches of Cheyenne" (Dan Roberts, Bryan Kennedy, Brooks) – 3:51
  4. "Two Piña Coladas" (Shawn Camp, Hill, Sandy Mason) – 4:38
  5. "Wild as the Wind" (Pete Wasner, Charles John Quarto) – 4:13
  6. "To Make You Feel My Love" (Bob Dylan) – 3:17
  7. "That Summer" (Alger, Sandy Mahl, Brooks) – 4:42
  8. "American Honky-Tonk Bar Association" (Kennedy, Jim Rushing) – 4:05
  9. "If Tomorrow Never Comes" (Blazy, Brooks) – 3:44
  10. "The Fever" (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Kennedy, Roberts) – 3:40
  11. "Friends in Low Places (The Long Version)" (Earl "Bud" Lee, DeWayne Blackwell) – 8:56
  12. "The Dance" (Tony Arata) – 3:56

The 25th Anniversary Edition of Double Live includes the following additional tracks:

Personnel[]

Per liner notes included with the album's release.[9]

Musicians[]

  • Susan Ashton — backing vocals
  • Bob Bailey — backing vocals, choir
  • Bruce Bouton — pedal steel guitar
  • Garth Brooks — vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Mark Casstevens — acoustic guitar
  • Lisa Cochran — choir
  • Stephanie Davis — acoustic guitar, backing vocals
  • Mike Elred — choir
  • Ty England — acoustic guitar
  • Béla Fleck — banjo
  • David Gant — keyboards
  • James Garver — electric guitar, backing vocals
  • Mark Greenwood — bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Vicki Hampton — backing vocals, choir
  • Mark Ivey — choir
  • Marabeth Jordan — choir
  • Gordon Kennedy — electric guitar
  • John Kinsch — electric guitar
  • Chris Leuzinger — electric guitar
  • Jimmy Mattingly — fiddle, mandolin, acoustic guitar
  • Steve McClure — electric guitar, pedal steel guitar
  • Donna McElroy — backing vocals
  • Terry McMillan — harmonica
  • Debbie Nims — acoustic guitar, mandolin, backing vocals
  • Mike Palmer — drums
  • Victoria Shaw — backing vocals
  • Lisa Silver — choir
  • Betsy Smittle — bass guitar
  • Keith Urban — electric guitar
  • Cindy Walker — choir
  • Steve Wariner — acoustic guitar, backing vocals on "Longneck Bottle"
  • Bergen White — choir
  • Dennis Wilson — choir
  • Bobby Wood — keyboards
  • Trisha Yearwood — vocals on "Wild As The Wind", choir
  • Nashville String Machine — string orchestra

Production[]

  • Guy Charbonneau – engineer
  • Carlos Grier – digital editing
  • John Harris – engineer
  • Joe Loesch - sound design
  • Mark Miller – engineer, mixing engineer
  • Denny Purcell – mastering engineer
  • John Saylor – engineer
  • Steve Smith – engineer

Album cover themes[]

The album was originally released November 17, 1998 with a commemorative cover. In each of the next six weeks, another commemorative cover was released, each themed with one of Brooks' live performances.

Variations released since the original issue include a First Edition cover, Reunion Arena '91, Texas Stadium '93, World Tour I, World Tour II, Central Park '97, Dublin '98, USS Enterprise '01, The Last Show, Off-Stage and, in 2014, the 25th Anniversary Edition was released including a new cover, additional bonus tracks and a DVD to promote the digital remaster and release of Brook's digital music via GhostTunes.[7]

Chart performance[]

Double Live debuted at number 1 on the US Billboard 200, becoming Brooks' seventh, and number 1 on the Top Country Albums, Brooks' ninth number one Country album. In November 2006, Double Live was certified 21× Platinum by the RIAA.

Charts and certifications[]

Singles[]

"It's Your Song" was re-recorded in the studio and released as a single, peaking at #9 in late 1998. Two of the album's other tracks charted on the Billboard charts in 1998 from unsolicited airplay.

Year Single Peak chart positions
US Country US CAN Country
1998 "It's Your Song" 9 62 5
"Tearin' It Up (And Burnin' It Down)" 63 — —
"Wild as the Wind" (with Trisha Yearwood) 65 — —

See also[]

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