It was originally released as a double-LP with a three-page booklet and reached number 163 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart.

[1] Prior to the release of Children of the Morning, the trio had decided to disband in one year after a tour and another album.

[1] By the time the album was released John Stewart had begun a solo career, Nick Reynolds was retired from the music business and Bob Shane had created a new group, The New Kingston Trio.

Allmusic critic Bruce Eder praised the live album, citing individual songs, and writing "Tetragrammaton folded in the early '70s, and the resulting double LP is one of the rarest in the Kingston Trio's output, which is sad -- the best of their concert recordings since those renowned live recordings of 1958, it captured the group ranging freely across its history and the folk landscape...

"[2] The tracks "Police Brutality", "A Day in Our Room", "Silicone Bust" and "Blind Date" are comedy interludes by John Stewart.