The first iteration of Ripped Pigeon included current member Jesse Wyatt Owens (vocals/drums) along with his friends Steven Thomas (guitar) and John Stay (bass and piano.)  They had met in Gravette Arkansas through the school band program in 2006, playing music together during their high school years (along with future members Mia Quain and Nick Boyd-Goodlett.)  
 
Once Stay graduated, Owens and Thomas were left to their owns devices.  They experimented with writing and recording music using whatever means they had, be it bare-bones notation software or an old two-input tape-deck.  Eventually, Owens purchased an eight-track recorder and began to plot out the beginnings of an album to record.
 
Not long into the process, Owens and Thomas began to discuss potential additions to the band.  Nicholas Boyd-Goodlett (bass) and Jacob Singleton (guitar) were then added to the lineup.  The four recorded and released their first album "Born With Love" and played several live performances during their final months in school during 2010.
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From there, Owens attended Arkansas Tech University, Thomas attended Northwest Arkansas Community College (both to get their degrees in music), Boyd-Goodlett began to work with Wal-Mart, and Singleton, two years younger, remained behind in Gravette.  Its members separated, the band began to deteriorate.  They managed to release one more album, "Pigeon Stew" and play several more live shows from 2011 until 2013, though the last year did not have Singleton in the lineup.  Afterwards, the band fizzled.
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Ripped Pigeon's revival would begin through Owens and Boyd-Goodlett.  Once Owens finished his schooling, he moved back to the Northwest Arkansas area.  He and Boyd-Goodlett were determined to keep the band alive but struggled to find the time and additional members to make it happen.  It wasn't until 2017 that they found success. 
 
Mia Quain, Owens's room mate in college, had returned to Booneville Arkansas after college in 2014.  Three years later, she informed Owens that she planned to move back to the Northwest Arkansas area.  Quain had occasionally performed with the band on guitar during their early years when she lived in Gravette, and Owens enthusiastically asked if his former roommate had interest in playing with the band again.  Quain said yes, and Ripped Pigeon began to rehearse once again.
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The final addition to the group came in the form of Joshua Davis (keyboard and harmonica) not two months after Quain's arrival.  Davis had met Boyd-Goodlett years earlier through work, and he was in turn introduced to Owens.  Davis, with musical background on the clarinet, expressed interest in jamming with the band on keyboard, which he had recently begun to learn.  Davis, notable as being a quick study, made a very big impression on the trio, and the last piece was in place.
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In 2018, Ripped Pigeon began performing live in the Northwest Arkansas area once again, and they started the production of their third album, "Sailing On the Seas of Sound," through Stoneridge Recording.   Though the COVID-19 pandemic slowed the making of the record, its production was finished in 2021.