Double Live (Garth Brooks album)

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Released November 17, 1998 Label Capitol Nashville Release date 17 November 1998		Recorded 1998 Artist Garth Brooks Producer Allen Reynolds

Length 47:08 (disc 1)53:03 (disc 2) Double Live(1998) Garth Brooks...In the Life of Chris Gaines(1999) Genres Country music, Country pop, Country rock Awards American Music Award for Favorite Country Album Similar Garth Brooks albums, Country music albums

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Double Live is the first and only live album by American country music 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. 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 is a double album), and is the seventh most shipped album in the U.S. 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.

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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" & '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

"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
feat. 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

Personnel

Compiled from liner notes.

Musicians

Susan Ashton — background vocals

Bob Bailey — background vocals, choir

Bruce Bouton — steel guitar

Mark Casstevens — acoustic guitar

Lisa Cochran — choir

Stephanie Davis — acoustic guitar, background vocals

Mike Elred — choir

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, 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, steel guitar

Donna McElroy — background vocals

Terry McMillan — harmonica

Nashville String Machine — strings

Debbie Nims — acoustic guitar, mandolin, background vocals

Mike Palmer — drums

Victoria Shaw — background vocals

Lisa Silver — choir

Betsy Smittle — bass guitar

Keith Urban — electric guitar

Cindy Walker — choir

Steve Wariner — acoustic guitar, background vocals

Bergen White — choir

Dennis Wilson — choir

Bobby Wood — keyboards

Trisha Yearwood — background vocals, choir

Technical

Guy Charbonneau — engineering

Carlos Grier — digital editing

John Harris — engineering

Mark Miller — engineering, mixing

Denny Purcell — mastering

Allen Reynolds — production

John Saylor — engineering

Steve Smith — engineering

Overdubs and mixing at Jack's Tracks, The Music Mill, and The Tracking Room

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 #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.

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.