JACKSON — Dave Kinsman’s career as a drummer was winding down in the Boston music scene in 1975, and he needed a place to store his drums.
He’d been playing with a hot local country rock band, John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys, but was looking for a change.
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