Garth Brooks-Double Live 1998 Limited Edition 2-CD HDCD

Product descriptionGarth Brooks - Double Live - CdAmazon.comGarth Brooks's obvious inspirations forDouble Live were all those 1970s double-album concert recordings from album-oriented-rock influences such as Bob Seger, Kiss, and Peter Frampton. The difference between those classic-rock sets and this one is thatLive Bullet,Alive andFrampton Comes Alive all helped to rescue their respective artists from virtual obscurity. Coming as they did from still largely unknown commodities, they seemingly promised nothing yet delivered everything. Already a superstar, Brooks merely promises more of the same onDouble Live. He delivers, too. "You guys already know what's coming, don't you?" he asks at one point. "And you know what? You're right." Loaded with 22 hits (and three new tunes) recorded in any number of unnamed cities (and studios, too) over the past seven years,Double Live finds Brooks exaggerating his most irritating tics--the Wynnona-ish growls, the ridiculously elastic twang--in the process ruining even his finest songs. Still, even those convinced that Brooks is the Garth Vader of country music will be brought to pause as tens of thousands of admiring fans sing earnestly along to "The Dance" or "Unanswered Prayers," and scream their way through the anthem "Friends in Low Places." (Please note: You may receive any one of the album's six different covers.)--David CantwellReviewBrooks gives his fans plenty of concert-only goodies on the album's 25 songs, like the additional verses that pound home the points of "The Thunder Rolls" and "Friends in Low Places." --USA Today