Double Live (Garth Brooks album)

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. 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. By 2012, it had sold 6,017,000 copies.

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

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.

Track listing

Disc one
 "Callin' Baton Rouge" (Dennis Linde)  – 2:58
 "Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House" (Warren Haynes, Dennis Robbins, Bobby Boyd)  – 2:44
 "Shameless" (Billy Joel)  – 3:55
 "Papa Loved Mama" (Kim Williams, Garth Brooks)  – 2:51
 "The Thunder Rolls (The Long Version)" (Pat Alger, Brooks)  – 4:48
 "We Shall Be Free" (Stephanie Davis, Brooks)  – 4:43
 "Unanswered Prayers" (Alger, Larry Bastian, Brooks)  – 3:41
 "Standing Outside the Fire" (Jenny Yates, Brooks)  – 3:43
 "Longneck Bottle" (Rick Carnes, Steve Wariner)  – 2:42
feat. Steve Wariner
 "It's Your Song" (Pam Wolfe, Benita Hill)  – 4:18
 "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" (Randy Taylor, Brooks)  – 3:12
 "The River" (Victoria Shaw, Brooks)  – 3:48
 (Untitled Track) – 0:061
 "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:
"More Than a Memory" (Lee Brice, Billy Montana, Kyle Jacobs) – 3:29 (Between "Papa Loved Mama" and "The Thunder Rolls")
"Workin' for a Livin'" (Duet with Huey Lewis) (Huey Lewis, Chris Hayes) – 3:22 (Between "Much Too Young" and "The River")

Disc two
 "Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)" (Williams, Blazy, Brooks) – 4:45
 "Rodeo" (Bastian) – 3:44
 "The Beaches of Cheyenne" (Dan Roberts, Bryan Kennedy, Brooks) – 3:51
 "Two Piña Coladas" (Shawn Camp, Hill, Sandy Mason) – 4:38
 "Wild as the Wind" (Pete Wasner, Charles John Quarto) – 4:13
featuring Trisha Yearwood
 "To Make You Feel My Love" (Bob Dylan) – 3:17
 "That Summer" (Alger, Sandy Mahl, Brooks) – 4:42
 "American Honky-Tonk Bar Association" (Kennedy, Jim Rushing) – 4:05
 "If Tomorrow Never Comes" (Blazy, Brooks) – 3:44
 "The Fever" (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Kennedy, Roberts) – 3:40
 "Friends in Low Places (The Long Version)" (Earl "Bud" Lee, DeWayne Blackwell) – 8:56
 "The Dance" (Tony Arata) – 3:56
The 25th Anniversary Edition of Double Live includes the following additional tracks:
"Heart in New York" (Benny Gallagher, Graham Lyle) – 1:21 (Between "Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)" and "Rodeo")
"Good Ride Cowboy" (Jerrod Niemann, Bryan Kennedy, Richie Brown and Bob Doyle) – 3:40 (Between "Wild as the Wind" and "To Make You Feel My Love")
"Wrapped Up In You" (Wayne Kirkpatrick) – 4:26 (Between "American Honky-Tonk Bar Association" and "If Tomorrow Never Comes")

Personnel
Per liner notes included with the album's release.

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.

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

Charts

Sales and certifications

Decade-end charts

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.

See also
List of best-selling albums in the United States

References

Category:Garth Brooks albums
Category:Albums produced by Allen Reynolds
Category:1998 live albums
Category:Capitol Records live albums

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