NEWBEATS

Yep, they’re from Nashville...but don’t call ’em country. Don’t even bring it up in conversation around the Royal Court Of China; one of their foremost goals is to escape the marginally hickish image that’s been tacked to most of the major label bands that have emerged from Music City, U.S.A. Cowpunkers like Jason & The Scorchers and Walk The West, not to mention a ten-gallon hatful of local/unsigned country-rockers, aren’t exactly who these boys want to be lumped in with, and—bolo ties and spurs aside—the Royal Court Of China is refreshingly non-country.