Music With Dancing

the long version

Follow the heartwarming and humorous music tour of a good-natured and talented Southern fellow who never cared for the fortune and fame that came along with a successful music career. Michael McClung’s Music with Dancing is a novel about a young man and his rare musical talent that takes him up the charts, and almost away from the people dear to his heart. Charlie Whitlock is an unassuming musician in the 1950s whose genius skills on the guitar take him from his small town in Mississippi to the big stages of New York, then to London and Paris. Charlie tours the world, but stays away from the lavish and flamboyant lifestyle common to most successful music artist. Not caring for the big bucks of his fame or the flash of success, Charlie seeks out his life long sweetheart instead. Written from a first-person perspective, Music with Dancing is an entertaining Southern tale of country wisdom applied in the limelight of big-city social life. Author Michael McClung’s playful use of syllogism and the Southern dialect creates an enriching comical adventure.