Double Live

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
Professional reviews
Allmusic link Entertainment Weekly (B-) Review
Garth Brooks chronology
The Limited Series (1997) Double Live (1998) Garth Brooks in ... The Life of Chris Gaines (1999)

Double Live is the name of Garth Brooks' tenth country album. As its name implies, it is a two-disc live album recorded live during Brooks' second world tour in 1998. It broke the first week sales record at the time, when it sold one million copies^[1], becoming the best-selling live album in the U.S. since Peter Frampton's Frampton Comes Alive! in 1976. The RIAA certified the album at 21.00× Multi Platinum, recognizing 10.5 million shipments in the United States (as a double album its was certified double the original 10.5 times, hence the certification of 21.00× Multi Platinum)- making it tied with Billy Joel's Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume II for sixth best-selling album of all time.^[2]

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.

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

• Susan Ashton – background vocals
• Bob Bailey – background vocals
• Bruce Bouton – pedal steel guitar
• Garth Brooks – lead vocals, acoustic guitar
• Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar
• Stephanie Davis – acoustic guitar, background vocals
• Ty England – acoustic guitar
• Béla Fleck – banjo
• David Gant – keyboards
• James Garver – electric guitar, background vocals
• Mark Greenwood – bass guitar, background vocals
• Vicki Hampton – background vocals
• Gordon Kennedy – electric guitar
• John Kinsch – electric guitar
• Chris Leuzinger – electric guitar
• Jimmy Mattingly – acoustic guitar, fiddle, mandolin
• Steve McClure – electric guitar, pedal steel guitar
• Terry McMillan – harmonica
• Debbie Nims – acoustic guitar, background vocals
• Mike Palmer – drums
• Victoria Shaw – background vocals
• Betsy Smittle – bass guitar
• Keith Urban – electric guitar
• Steve Wariner – acoustic guitar, background vocals
• Bobby Wood – keyboards
• Trisha Yearwood – background vocals

Choir: Bob Bailey, Lisa Cochran, Mike Elred, Vicki Hampton, Mark Ivey, Marabeth Jordan, Lisa Silver, Cindy Walker, Bergen White, Dennis Wilson, Trisha Yearwood

Strings performed by the Nashville String Machine under the conduction of Charles Cochran.

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.

Chart positions

Album

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

External links

• Double Live at countrymusic.about.com