Their first album released in the United States, Tree63, won the GMA Dove Award for “Rock Album of the Year” in 2001.[2]

Tree63’s recording of Matt Redman’s “Blessed Be Your Name” helped to spark the song’s popularity. This recording was featured on the 2005 edition of WOW Hits. On a February 2, 2007 broadcast of 20, The Countdown Magazine (special edition, Praise and Worship) guest Chris Tomlin described Tree63’s rendition of “Blessed Be Your Name” as “…the definitive recording of one of the most all-encompassing songs in the entire world of Christian music.” The song was then announced as the number 3 Praise and Worship song of all time. [3]

Tree63, as they are now called, got their name because an American punk band called Tree were already out there and then some record company bod Stateside picked up their last CD and thought the band were called Tree63! But isn’t that a bit of a stupid name? “Tree 63?” John counters. “It rhymes though so come on!”