In a review for
AllMusic, Thom Jurek wrote: "
Songlines is the finest moment in the Derek Trucks Band's recording career. It's a fully mature, deeply reckoned studio album that bears repeated listening to reveal all its subtlety and the beauty of its creation."
The Washington Post's
Geoffrey Himes described the album as "the best jam-band album of the new decade," and noted that it "has set up the baby-faced kid in the blond ponytail as the movement's most likely leader into the next decade." Writing for
All About Jazz, Doug Collette commented: "This album completely captures the diverse strengths of the group and its leader... Trucks' deceptively unassuming presence becomes the focal point that inspires his band, elevating
Songlines to an absolutely stellar level." Reviewer George Graham remarked: "Some jam bands can go on for hours without much interesting music happening. Derek Trucks... has never been one to fall victim to jam-band noodling. His palette is wide, his playing is imaginative and his band still rocks." ==Track listing==