Entry #1-Morgan Stanley

After accessing Petruisch's writing style in the beginning of the novel, I understand whats she is trying to show the reader. Americana has not been and will never be on the top 100. It has not totally slipped from many Americans Ipod mixes though. She uses various examples including the movie "O brother Where Areth Thou" to show that it has not died completely. The movie, I can personally say awakened my musical knowledge and since has made me a strong blue grass/folk lover.

She wants to stress that the music that was played on the porches of southern Americans' homes can never be the same but should never be forgotten. I wish she talked more about her opinion personally on the matter of that genre of music, but I only recall information spewed out like pure knowledge based. As for the chapter on her New York lifestyle. She really does not open up any deeper issues or at least does not stress them. It feels like a bland rant about how she came to be and I wanted more of a reason why she chose this path at this point in her life. After the setting she gets to the real issues that she wants to answer, how this southern twangy sound originated and cultivated music today? Also why people go through such lengths to uncover such old records?

What I want to know is how she is going to make this trip a rewarding one? Is she going to use interviews to uncover how Americana has come to be or try to look at the south like a gigantic museum of cultural music? I am so far interested at her quest to find answers on an otherwise overlooked subject and her knowledge thus far on music/pop culture is refreshing.