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.
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. 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, and is the seventh most shipped album in the US. By 2012, it had sold 6,017,000 copies.
Double Live was re-released on September 5, 2014, as Double Live: 25th Anniversary Edition, exclusive to GhostTunes.

Content

The song "Tearin' It Up " was originally slated for Brooks' 1997 album Sevens, and "Wild as the Wind" was intended for a duets album with Trisha Yearwood.

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "Callin' Baton Rouge" – 2:58
  2. "Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House" – 2:44
  3. "Shameless" – 3:55
  4. "Papa Loved Mama" – 2:51
  5. "The Thunder Rolls " – 4:48
  6. "We Shall Be Free" – 4:43
  7. "Unanswered Prayers" – 3:41
  8. "Standing Outside the Fire" – 3:43
  9. "Longneck Bottle" – 2:42
  10. *feat. Steve Wariner
  11. "It's Your Song" – 4:18
  12. "Much Too Young " – 3:12
  13. "The River" – 3:48
  14. – 0:061
  15. "Tearin' It Up " – 3:56
  16. *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:
  1. "Ain't Goin' Down " – 4:45
  2. "Rodeo" – 3:44
  3. "The Beaches of Cheyenne" – 3:51
  4. "Two Piña Coladas" – 4:38
  5. "Wild as the Wind" – 4:13
  6. *featuring Trisha Yearwood
  7. "To Make You Feel My Love" – 3:17
  8. "That Summer" – 4:42
  9. "American Honky-Tonk Bar Association" – 4:05
  10. "If Tomorrow Never Comes" – 3:44
  11. "The Fever" – 3:40
  12. "Friends in Low Places " – 8:56
  13. "The Dance" – 3:56
The 25th Anniversary Edition of Double Live includes the following additional tracks:
Per liner notes included with the album's release.

Musicians

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.

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

Sales and certifications

Decade-end charts

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.