The album featured the debut of the Stone Canyon Band, which included Randy Meisner, Tom Brumley, Allen Kemp, and Patrick Shanahan, and was Nelson's highest-charting release in three years.

In 2011, the British label Ace Records issued a remastered version of In Concert at the Troubadour on two compact discs with 30 bonus tracks and a booklet containing detailed information about the shows and songs that were recorded.

Bear Family included the album in the 2008 For You: The Decca Years box set.

[7] Bruce Eder of AllMusic's described the album as "excellent", noted it "mix of the more enduring of his classic hits and some of the newer songs he was adding to his repertory, including a trio of Bob Dylan compositions and Tim Hardin's "Red Balloon"[1] Billboard gave a positive review, saying it features "top treatments of Dylan's "I Shall Be Released" and Tim Hardin's "Red Balloon"[8] Tracks 1-12 are from the original 1970 album; Tracks 13-22 are newly mixed alternate performances.

All tracks on disc two are newly mixed alternate performances from the 1969 Troubadour shows.