Nita Strauss was 15 years old when she went on tour for the first time. She knew it would be tough, but she never expected to have to outrun a tornado. “We were playing somewhere in Tornado Alley,” she says, referring to an area in the Southern USA where storms are common. “We were just packing up when someone said, ‘You better go right now, there’s a tornado coming.’ As we were on the highway, we could actually see this thing out of the side of the car! That was crazy.”
The subsequent 20-odd years have been no less eventful. The LA-born guitarist’s CV reads like the most random festival bill ever; she’s played with everyone from Alice Cooper and Demi Lovato to Jermaine ‘Brother Of Michael’ Jackson and NFL team the LA Rams, as well as releasing a pair of solo albums – the most recent of which, The Call Of The Void, came out in 2023.
