Susi Gott
Susi Gott is an American bluegrass and old-time fiddler, vocalist, author, and culinary historian. Raised in the Shelton Laurel community of Madison County, North Carolina, she grew up performing traditional string-band music within the Peter Gott Family ensemble. In the late 1980s, she relocated to France touring extensively for the Jeunesses Musicales de France. She recorded the joint album Carolina with multi-instrumentalist Christian Séguret and contributed fiddle and vocals to projects by Eddie Adcock, Robbie O'Connell, and French folk star Hugues Aufray. She later expanded her career into literature and gastronomy, serving as the assistant director of East Tennessee State University's Bluegrass & Country Music Program from 1997 to 1998 before publishing her landmark memoir of regional roots music and lore, Child of the Woods: An Appalachian Odyssey (2019)
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- Raised to the Rhythm of the Road (No. 8)