It peaked at #87 on the Billboard Top LPs chart.

The lead-off single was "Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues" (a re-recording of a song O'Keefe had first recorded for his self-titled debut album two years earlier), which reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was covered by numerous artists.

"The Road" was covered by Jackson Browne on his album Running on Empty.

O'Keefe was reissued in 2006 on the Wounded Bird label.

Thom Jurek states in his Allmusic review: "O'Keefe is utterly solid, so completely diverse, and tight; it's a forgotten masterpiece."