"[O'Brien's] first offering from a project both technically new and comfortingly familiar: The simply titled "Tim O'Brien Band" ... They've crafted a shared collection of songs that benefit less from sonic exploration and more from air-tight execution. This is a leaner, more focused Tim O'Brien album, with no fluff and very little maudlin to speak of, but plenty of "high, lonesome sound." It is, in short, a near-perfect blend of everything you'd expect to hear on one of O'Brien's mid-2000s classics".