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' 1996–98 world tour.
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Released | November 17, 1998 | |||
Recorded | 1996–1998 | |||
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Label | Capitol Nashville | |||
Producer | Allen Reynolds | |||
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Entertainment Weekly | B–[2] |
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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 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 21× Platinum by the RIAA (10.5 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]
Content
The song "Tearin' It Up (And Burnin' It Down)" was originally slated for Brooks' 1997 album Sevens, and "Wild as the Wind" was intended for a duets album with Trisha Yearwood.[8]
Track listing
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" and "The Thunder Rolls")
- "Workin' for a Livin'" (Duet with Huey Lewis) (Huey Lewis, Chris Hayes) – 3:22 (Between "Much Too Young" and "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
- featuring 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
The 25th Anniversary Edition of Double Live includes the following additional tracks:
- "Heart in New York" (Benny Gallagher, Graham Lyle) – 1:21 (Between "Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)" and "Rodeo")
- "Good Ride Cowboy" (Jerrod Niemann, Bryan Kennedy, Richie Brown and Bob Doyle) – 3:40 (Between "Wild as the Wind" and "To Make You Feel My Love")
- "Wrapped Up In You" (Wayne Kirkpatrick) – 4:26 (Between "American Honky-Tonk Bar Association" and "If Tomorrow Never Comes")
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 2006, Double Live was certified 21× Platinum by the RIAA.
Charts and certifications
Charts
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Sales and certifications
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Decade-end charts
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US Billboard 200[23] | 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 | ||
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1998 | "It's Your Song" | 9 | 62 | 5 |
"Tearin' It Up (And Burnin' It Down)" | 63 | — | — | |
"Wild as the Wind" (with Trisha Yearwood) | 65 | — | — |
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