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's 1996–98 world tour.

Double Live
Live album by Garth Brooks
Released	November 17, 1998
Recorded	1996–1998
Genre	Country country rock country pop
Length	47:08 (disc one) 53:03 (disc two)
Label	Capitol Nashville
Producer	Allen Reynolds
Garth Brooks chronology
The Limited Series (1998) Double Live (1998) Garth Brooks in...the Life of Chris Gaines (1999)

Professional ratings

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

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 first new 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 23× Platinum by the RIAA (11.5 million shipped as it is a double album), and is the seventh most shipped album in the US.^[5] By 2012, it had 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]

Double Live was again re-released on November 20, 2018, as part of the Garth Brooks Anthology Part III: Live book.

Content

The song "Tearin' It Up (And Burnin' It Down)" was originally slated for Brooks's 1997 album Sevens, and "Wild as the Wind" was intended for a duets album with Trisha Yearwood.^[8]

Track listing

Original Release

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
   • featuring 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

25th Anniversary Edition Release

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. "More Than a Memory" (Lee Brice, Billy Montana, Kyle Jacobs) – 3:29
6. "The Thunder Rolls (The Long Version)" (Pat Alger, Brooks) – 4:48
7. "We Shall Be Free" (Stephanie Davis, Brooks) – 4:43
8. "Unanswered Prayers" (Alger, Larry Bastian, Brooks) – 3:41
9. "Standing Outside the Fire" (Jenny Yates, Brooks) – 3:43
10. "Longneck Bottle" (Rick Carnes, Steve Wariner) – 2:42
    • 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. "Workin' for a Livin'" (Duet with Huey Lewis) (Huey Lewis, Chris Hayes) – 3:22
14. "The River" (Victoria Shaw, Brooks) – 3:48
15. "Tearin' It Up (And Burnin' It Down)" (Kent Blazy, Williams, Brooks) – 3:56

Disc two

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

Anthology Part III: Live Edition Release

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. "More Than a Memory" (Lee Brice, Billy Montana, Kyle Jacobs) – 3:29
6. "The Thunder Rolls (The Long Version)" (Pat Alger, Brooks) – 4:48
7. "We Shall Be Free" (Stephanie Davis, Brooks) – 4:43
8. "Unanswered Prayers" (Alger, Larry Bastian, Brooks) – 3:41
9. "Standing Outside the Fire" (Jenny Yates, Brooks) – 3:43
10. "Longneck Bottle" (Rick Carnes, Steve Wariner) – 2:42
    • 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. "Tearin' It Up (And Burnin' It Down)" (Kent Blazy, Williams, Brooks) – 3:56

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
   • featuring 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

Per liner notes included with the album's release.^[9]

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.^[7]

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 2023, Double Live was certified 23× Platinum by the RIAA.

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (1998) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[10] 43 Canadian Albums (RPM)[11] 1 Canadian Country Albums (RPM)[12] 1 European Albums (Billboard)[13] 66 Irish Albums (RPM)[14] 3 Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[15] 15 Scottish Albums (OCC)[16] 75 UK Albums (OCC)[17] 57 US Billboard 200[18] 1 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[19] 1

Year-end charts Chart (1999) Position US Billboard 200[20] 6 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[21] 2 Chart (2000) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[22] 28 Chart (2001) Position Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)[23] 80 Chart (2002) Position Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)[24] 89 Decade-end charts Chart (1990–1999) Position US Billboard 200[25] 50

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[26]	Gold	35,000^
Canada (Music Canada)[27]	6× Platinum	600,000^
Norway (IFPI Norway)[28]	Gold
United Kingdom (BPI)[29]	Silver	60,000^
United States (RIAA)[30]	23× Platinum	11,500,000‡
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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	—	—

See also

• List of best-selling albums in the United States

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