Double Live (Garth Brooks album)

Double Live
Live album by Garth Brooks
Released	November 17, 1998
Recorded	1998
Genre	Country, country rock, country pop
Length	47:08 (disc 1) 53:03 (disc 2)
Label	Capitol Nashville
Producer	Allen Reynolds
Garth Brooks chronology
The Limited Series (1997) Double Live (1998) Garth Brooks...In the Life of Chris Gaines (1999)
Double Live: 25th Anniversary Edition

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	B−[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[3]

Double Live is the first and only live album by American country pop artist 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 U.S. 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 a double album), and is the seventh most shipped album in the U.S.^[5] According to Nielsen Soundscan, it has 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]

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
   • feat. Steve Wariner
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:

• "More Than a Memory" (Lee Brice, Billy Montana, Kyle Jacobs) - 3:29 (Between "Papa Loved Mama" & 'The Thunder Rolls")
• "Workin' for a Livin'" (Duet with Huey Lewis) (Huey Lewis, Chris Hayes) - 3:22 (Between "Much Too Young" & "The River")

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
   • feat. Trisha Yearwood
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

Personnel

The following credits are sourced from liner notes included with the album's release.^[8]

Musicians

• Susan Ashton — background vocals
• Bob Bailey — background vocals, choir
• Bruce Bouton — pedal steel guitar
• Garth Brooks — lead and background vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Mark Casstevens — acoustic guitar
• Lisa Cochran — choir
• Stephanie Davis — acoustic guitar, background vocals
• Mike Elred — choir
• Ty England — acoustic guitar
• Béla Fleck — banjo
• Johnny Garcia — electric guitar
• David Gant — piano, organ keyboards
• James Garver — electric guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, percussion, background vocals
• Mark Greenwood — bass guitar, background vocals
• Vicki Hampton — background vocals, choir
• Mark Ivey — choir
• Marabeth Jordan — choir
• Gordon Kennedy — electric guitar
• John Kinsch — electric guitar
• Chris Leuzinger — electric guitar
• Huey Lewis — lead and background vocals, harmonica
• Steve McClure — electric guitar, pedal steel guitar
• Donna McElroy — background vocals
• Terry McMillan — harmonica
• Jimmy Mattingly — fiddle, acoustic guitar
• Debbie Nims — acoustic guitar, mandolin, background vocals
• Mike Palmer — drums
• Victoria Shaw — background vocals
• Lisa Silver — choir
• Betsy Smittle — bass guitar
• Crystal Taliefero — percussion, background vocals
• Keith Urban — electric guitar
• Cindy Walker — choir
• Steve Wariner — acoustic guitar, background vocals
• Bergen White — choir
• Dennis Wilson — choir
• Bobby Wood — piano, organ, keyboards
• Trisha Yearwood — background vocals, choir
• Nashville String Machine — strings

Recording personnel

• Guy Charbonneau — engineer
• Carlos Grier — digital editor
• John Harris — engineer
• Mark Miller — engineer, mixer
• Denny Purcell — mastering engineer
• Allen Reynolds — producer
• 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 #1 on the U.S. Billboard 200, becoming Brooks' seventh, and #1 on the Top Country Albums, Brooks' ninth #1 Country album. In November 2006, Double Live was certified 21 x Platinum by the RIAA.

Charts and certifications

Charts Charts (1998) Peak position Australian Albums Chart[9] 43 Canadian RPM Top Albums[10] 1 Canadian RPM Country Albums[11] 1 European Albums Chart[12] 66 Irish Albums Chart[13] 3 Norwegian Albums Chart[9] 15 Scottish Albums Chart[14] 75 UK Albums Chart[15] 57 U.S. Billboard 200[16] 1 U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums[16] 1

Sales and certifications Region/provider Certification Sales/shipments Australia (ARIA) Gold[17] 35,000 Canada (CRIA) 6x Platinum [18] 600,000 Norway (IFPI) Gold[19] 15,000 United Kingdom (BPI) Silver[20] 60,000 United States (RIAA) 21x Platinum[21] 10,500,000 Worldwide 11,210,000

Decade-end charts

Chart (1990–1999)	Position
US Billboard 200[22]	50

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	—	—

Chart Successions

See also

• List of best-selling albums in the United States

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