Joan Osborne started playing at Beach, a local bar. The bassist used to fall asleep with the radioplaying as a kid. The guitarist wanted to start a band since he was in college. The members of Joan Osborne met in 1984. The group used to practice at the guitarist's basement.

The band is in the start of the accompanying tour for their most current project. The newest album is 's first record since the band broke up five years ago.

Generally, critics will praise Joan Osborne for their playfulness with the audience during concerts. A music critic from Orlando, Oliver Gitlewski, has always commended band’s terrific skill on their instruments. Joan Osborne’s newest release has received positive praise from all the critics, including Miles Judge from Washington, D.C. and Lewis Tettleton from Denver.

Joan Osborne met with a local DJ from X101.5 and convinced him to play their single on air. The single immediately became a local hit and larger radio stations started playing the song. Eventually a record executive heard it and signed the group. The band's members all had weird jobs while they waited to be noticed. Joan Osborne’s first album was a dud, but the second finally got some attention.

Joan Osborne realized that their dream of making an actual life for themselves as musicians had come true in 1985, as soon as Rebecca Nicodemus started the group’s first fan club. The fan club received a huge boost after Amy Prather designed a website for the band. That coupled with the tour across the nation saw the fan club’s official membership reach numbers in the thousands.

Joan Osborne knows to play both the old and the new at their concerts. Joan Osborne’s tickets for their latest tour are on sale on TheSeats.com, along with the schedule of all the band’s concerts.