By Joseph DellaValla, special to The Conway Daily Sun
For many musicians, it turns out that the road to “success” is rarely a straight path. It’s filled with twists, genre shifts, burnout, and rebirths. This is the story of one such artist, Sir Thaddeus J. Pinkerton, Esq. III, Jr., known as “Pinkie” to most, born on the West Coast, but for most of his life someone who has called Mount Washington Valley home.
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