Double Live

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Double Live
Live album by Garth Brooks
Released	November 17, 1998
Recorded	1998
Genre	Country
Length	47:08 (disc 1), 53:03 (disc 2)
Label	Capitol Nashville
Producer	Allen Reynolds
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Entertainment Weekly (B-) Review
Garth Brooks chronology
The Limited Series (1997) Double Live (1998) Garth Brooks in ... The Life of Chris Gaines (1999)

For the Double Live album recorded by Butthole Surfers, see Double Live (Butthole Surfers album).
For the Double Live album recorded by Rheostatics, see Double Live (Rheostatics album).

Double Live is the name of Garth Brooks' tenth country album. As its name implies, it is a double live album album recorded live during Brooks' second world tour in 1998. It broke the single week sales record at the time, one million copies [1], in January of 2006, the RIAA certified the album at 20x platinum, denoting sales of 20 million in the United States alone.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] 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. "Crowd" – 0:06 Not listed on the case, it is 6 seconds of crowd cheering possibly included because Garth did not want the cd to have 13 tracks.
14. "Tearin' it Up (And Burnin' it Down)" (Kent Blazy, Williams, Brooks) – 3:56

[edit] 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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

First Edition: The cover shows Brooks in front of several world flags. (November 17)	Central Park, NYC: Commemorating Brooks' live free concert in 1997. (November 24)	Reunion Arena, Dallas, Texas: Commemorating Brooks' first televised live performance in 1991. (December 8)	Texas Stadium, Dallas, Texas: Commemorating Brooks' second televised live performance in 1993. (December 15)
World Tour II: Commemorating Brooks' second world tour, from 1996 to 1998. (December 22)	World Tour I: Commemorating Brooks' first world tour, from 1993 to 1994. (December 29)

The album would subsequently be packaged in Brooks' second Limited Series box set in 2005. The album had one of three new covers, themed with live performances that came after Double Live was originally released:

Off stage: A behind-the-scenes look at one of Brooks' live performances.

The Last Show: Commemorating Brooks' final live performance in 1999.

USS Enterprise: Commemorating Brooks' special live performance aboard the USS Enterprise in 2000.

[edit] Chart positions

[edit] Album

[edit] Singles

[edit] See also

• List of best-selling albums in the United States

[edit] External links

• Double Live at countrymusic.about.com