Heart’s guitarist, Nancy Wilson, is taking advantage of her band’s break to form a new project, Roadcase Royale. The band features three ex-Heart members, keyboardist Chris Joyner, bassist Dan Rothchild and drummer Ben Smith, as well as ex-Prince singer Liv Warfield and guitarist Ryan Waters, who is also producing the band’s material. Roadcase Royale sounds like “muscular rock with some R&B Blues and in depth ballads thrown in. “When I came up with the name Roadcase Royale, it was an interesting symbol to me,” said Wilson. “The big heavy-duty road cases that our amps, drums, and guitars travel in are much like the musicians they accompany on the road — strong and regal looking, yet all scuffed up and dented, covered in funny stickers that tell the story of a crazy traveling circus.” You can check out the band’s first song “Get Loud” below…
