Roots Music Report

About the Band

After releasing their debut album in November 2024 and seeing it go to #2 on both the Australian radio Airplay charts and the Australian Regional AMRAP charts,  63 Deluxe travelled from their home in Adelaide South Australia to Memphis Tennessee in January 2025 and performed at the prestigious International Blues Challenge hosted by the Blues Foundation. A week later they were in Nashville recording the very songs that they had just played in Memphis. It was on their way to the studio one morning that they learned the album had reached the #2 spot on the charts back home.
Upon returning to Australia they did a string of successful headline shows before doing a support with the Mike Stern band. After a raucus reception from the crowd and Mike saying to 63 Deluxe singer/guitaris Anthony Scott "If I'd known you could play like that I'd have organised to get you up with us........next time"  they were then told that the album was sitting at #15 on the Roots Music Report Bues/Rock Charts.

The band has had positive critical aclaim from notable musicians and Critics/Reviewers alike.
Upcoming shows have been booked with international Jazz guitar great Carl Orr (Billy Cobham, Marcus Miller, Mike Stern, Larry Coryell, George Duke) and  other notable international touring acts and the EP release of the recordings completed in Nashville through April 2025 under the title Memphis to Nashville has the band working hard to keep up but happy to be on a positive trajectory.

The following review by The Rock Doctors HotWax Album Reviews details the bands first album nicely.

63 DELUXE 63 Deluxe (independent/ bandcamp) **** ½

This is the self-titled debut for this trio from Adelaide.  63 Deluxe is a timeless mix of blues/rock on a funk chassis that melds grooviosity and extended workouts with a jazzy and jammy feel with tasty songwriting.  It’s quite intoxicating.

Forming in 2020, 63 Deluxe is Anthony Scott on guitar and lead vocals, Bret Hann on bass and Jack Thompson on drums and vocals.  Of the 12 songs on 63 Deluxe no fewer than 6 have been released as singles in the last couple of years.  The disc has bounce and swing along with a precise attention to detail.  Produced by Scott, I just love the way this sounds and feels- particularly the drums- a deep and rich modern funk n blues exploration that displays some top shelf playing.  Their Bandcamp page describes them as “an original blues infused funk/ rock trio” which is no doubt true, but I’m also hearing and feeling a jazz-like precision and playfulness in their musicianship, especially on a track like The Waiting Room  where Hann and Thompson set up a hot groove for Scott to solo over.

As a singer Anthony Scott reminds me of Steve Miller and his guitar playing is very tasty, helping the band to sound a little like Steely Dan’s Aussie cousin who might have been friends with Stevie Ray.  This album has been described as “(sitting) as comfortably with cutting edge post-modern blues rock as it does with what you might have heard on the radio 40 or 50 years ago”, and as someone who’s been playing records on the air since 1975, I gotta say that description fits like a glove. This disc is really, really well done.

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HOT TRACKS:  My Favorite Hurricane, Lost And Found, The Waiting Room

Discography

63 Deluxe Details Label: Independent