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]

Contents

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
  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
  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

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

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. 
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Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
by Alanis Morissette		 Billboard 200 number-one album
December 5, 1998 - January 8, 1999		 Succeeded by
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Preceded by
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by Shania Twain		 Top Country Albums number-one album
December 5, 1998 - January 30, 1999		 Succeeded by
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by Dixie Chicks
Preceded by
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February 1–7, 1999		 Succeeded by
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