Early on, there were three of them but, as was the point of the name, there grew to be what is now a rotating cast of talented folks and currently Run On Sentence could be anywhere from 1-12 people, although it is usually (and ideally) 5-8.

They put out their first album Oh When the Wind Comes Down with Hush Records in the Fall of 2008 and have received a lot of positive response both in sales and reviews. Just before it came out they did a Daytrotter session and, earlier this year, the song "Stonewall" was chosen as NPR's Song of the Day.