Austin Litke and Thomas Joseph White, both Dominican priests, founded the band and initially played Irish traditional music.

Initially playing Irish traditional music, other Dominican brothers joined the group's weekly recreational sessions and formed the band in 2014.

[1][2] As the band began playing at events organized by the House of Studies and as a street evangelization effort in Washington, they introduced additional songs from bluegrass and American folk music.

[5] The album drew positive reviews from Matthew Becklo of the Catholic media organization Word on Fire, C. C. Pecknold of the Christian magazine First Things, and Rod Dreher of The American Conservative.

[9] The band recorded their second studio album, Living for the Other Side, over a ten-day span at a Dominican retreat house in the Catskill Mountains and released it on the Feast of Saint Thomas Aquinas, January 28, 2021.

[11] White–who by 2021 was teaching at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome–said that he did not view the album primarily as a form of preaching, but instead that its Catholic and Dominican themes reflected the ordinary lives of the friars.

[10] In a review of Living for the Other Side for the Catholic magazine America, Mary Grace Mangano described the album's lyrics as "poetic, humorous, and truthful" and favorably compared the spiritual music to the works of Thomas Merton.

[10] In a review of the same album for Word on Fire, Andrew Petiprin said the song "Bourbon, Bluegrass, & the Bible", written by White, was "one of the high points of the record".

Petiprin said that he hoped that the band's work would gain popularity in the secular music world and "cut to the heart with the truth of the Gospel.

[8][15] Catholic themes remained an element on the third album's lyrics, with the title track featuring a reference to the Eucharist and "The Power and the Glory" referencing sacramental confession.

[16][17] In November 2023, four band members played its first international concert at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome, drawing 600 attendees.

[4] A concert by the band served as the conclusion to the second annual Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on the campus of the Catholic University of America in D.C. on September 28.