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)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	(B-)[2]

Double Live is the tenth album by American Country Music artist Garth Brooks, and was released on November 17, 1998. As its name implies, it is a two-disc live album recorded during Brooks' second world tour in 1998.

It broke the first week sales record at the time, previously held by Pearl Jam's Vs. since 1993, when it sold 1,085,000 copies.^[3] It became the best-selling live album in the U.S. since Peter Frampton's Frampton Comes Alive! in 1976. It has been certified 21 x Platinum by the RIAA, making it tied with Billy Joel's Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume II for the sixth best-selling album of all time in the U.S.^[4] And according to Nielsen Soundscan sold 6,015,000 copies over the counter.^[5]

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 performance

Double Live debuted at #1 on the U.S. Billboard 200, becoming his seventh, and #1 on the Top Country Albums, his ninth #1 Country album. In November 2006, Double Live was certified 21 x Platinum by the RIAA.

Charts Charts (1998) Peak position Canadian RPM Top Albums[6] 1 Canadian RPM Country Albums[7] 1 U.S. Billboard 200[8] 1 U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums[8] 1

Sales and Certifications Region Provider Certification Sales/Shipments Australia ARIA Gold[9] 35,000 Canada CRIA 6x platinum [10] 600,000 Norway IFPI Gold [11] 15,000 United States RIAA 21x Platinum[12] 10,500,000 World-Wide 28,000,000

End of decade charts

Chart (1990–1999)	Position
U.S. Billboard 200[13]	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	—	—

See also

• List of best-selling albums in the United States

References

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ Entertainment Weekly review
3. ^ "Yahoo.com"
4. ^ "RIAA List of Best Selling Albums"
5. ^ http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/18943/chart-watch-extra-ropin-the-biggest-country-hits/
6. ^ "RPM Top 100 CDs for November 30, 1998". RPM. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.7001&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=g56ab4141mmbm57p0i6mvhs6o3. Retrieved 2011-02-08. 
7. ^ "RPM Country Albums for November 30, 1998". RPM. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.7007&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=g56ab4141mmbm57p0i6mvhs6o3. Retrieved 2011-02-08. 
8. ^ ^{a b} http://www.billboard.com/#/album/garth-brooks/double-live/329276
9. ^ "Accreditations 1997 Albums - Australian Record Industry Association". Ariacharts.com.au. http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-accreditations-albums-1999.htm. Retrieved 2010-02-15. 
10. ^ "Canadian Recording Industry Association: Certification Results- February 15, 2010". CRIA. http://www.cria.ca/cert_db_search.php?page=4&wclause=WHERE+artist_name+like+%27%25Garth+brooks%25%27+ORDER+BY+cert_date%2C+cert_award+&rcnt=75&csearch=20&nextprev=1. Retrieved 2010-02-15. 
11. ^ http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=no&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifpi.no%2Fsok%2Findex_trofe.htm
12. ^ "Gold & Platinum - February 13, 2010". RIAA. http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=5&table=SEARCH_RESULTS&action=&title=&artist=Garth%20brooks&format=&debutLP=&category=&sex=&releaseDate=&requestNo=&type=&level=&label=&company=&certificationDate=&awardDescription=&catalogNo=&aSex=&rec_id=&charField=&gold=&platinum=&multiPlat=&level2=&certDate=&album=&id=&after=&before=&startMonth=1&endMonth=1&startYear=1958&endYear=2010&sort=Artist&perPage=25. Retrieved 2010-02-13. 
13. ^ Geoff Mayfield (December 25, 1999). 1999 The Year in Music Totally '90s: Diary of a Decade - The listing of Top Pop Albums of the '90s & Hot 100 Singles of the '90s. Billboard. http://books.google.co.kr/books?id=9w0EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&lr&rview=1&pg=RA1-PA4#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved October 15, 2010. 

Preceded by Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie by Alanis Morissette	Billboard 200 number-one album December 5, 1998 - January 8, 1999	Succeeded by Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood by DMX
Preceded by Come On Over by Shania Twain	Top Country Albums number-one album December 5, 1998 - January 30, 1999	Succeeded by Wide Open Spaces by Dixie Chicks
Preceded by Tammy Wynette Remembered by Various Artists Come On Over by Shania Twain	RPM Country Albums number-one album November 30 - January 17, 1999 February 1–7, 1999	Succeeded by Come on Over by Shania Twain Come On Over by Shania Twain