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Released
  
November 17, 1998

Label
  
Capitol Nashville

Release date
  
17 November 1998

Recorded
  
1998

Artist
  
Garth Brooks

Producer
  
Allen Reynolds

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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.

Contents

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

  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. feat. Steve Wariner
  11. "It's Your Song" (Pam Wolfe, Benita Hill) – 4:18
  12. "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" (Randy Taylor, Brooks) – 3:12
  13. "The River" (Victoria Shaw, Brooks) – 3:48
  14. (untitled track) – 0:061
  15. "Tearin' It Up (And Burnin' It Down)" (Kent Blazy, Williams, Brooks) – 3:56
  16. 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
    6. feat. Trisha Yearwood
    7. "To Make You Feel My Love" (Bob Dylan) – 3:17
    8. "That Summer" (Alger, Sandy Mahl, Brooks) – 4:42
    9. "American Honky-Tonk Bar Association" (Kennedy, Jim Rushing) – 4:05
    10. "If Tomorrow Never Comes" (Blazy, Brooks) – 3:44
    11. "The Fever" (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Kennedy, Roberts) – 3:40
    12. "Friends in Low Places (The Long Version)" (Earl "Bud" Lee, DeWayne Blackwell) – 8:56
    13. "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.

    Songs

    1Callin' Baton Rouge2:58
    2Two of a Kind - Workin' on a Full House2:38
    3Shameless4:03

    References

    Double Live (Garth Brooks album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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