![]() ![]() “John is a piece of me in the sense that we share that feeling of wanting to be accepted for being transmasculine. “All of the characters are kind of pieces of all of us,” said Benham. While John is not an exact mirror of Benham’s life, they do share the same fear of losing love and support for living in a way that feels the most truthful. “It's about John, or Johnny, who's a trans boy who's struggling with being Johnny Jane, which is an insult and not his name … and also trying to be John,” Benham explains. What they came up with is a one-hour play called "Johnny Jane." Valerie Nuzzo said, “We decided early on that we wanted to write something about ‘othering’ and how that happens and how we can ‘un-other’ people.” Their most recent production is one they wrote together. ![]() They’ve been working together for more than four years now. Benham’s partner, Joe, nodded his head in agreement.īenham and the Nuzzos are the principal actors and operators of Zephyr Stage, a theater company based in Fruita. Her husband Kim next to her tugged on the same imaginary cord. “That's right,” said Valerie Nuzzo, Benham’s friend and mentor, “We're going to just follow this story all the way through.” Her hands mimed as she spoke, pulling on a rope with one hand over the other. It’s five minutes to showtime and Finn Benham exhales a nervous sigh. He was reportedly working on a new album at the time of his death which featured superstars Eric Clapton, and Ben Harper, which is slated for release this September.PALISADE, Colo. He released almost 20 LPs over the length of his career, including the most recent 2011 album, Roots, which offered a host of classic blues tunes, and featured Warren Haynes and Edgar Winters, among others. Winter is best known for his distinct covers of songs like “Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo” by Rick Derringer, “Johnny B Goode” by Chuck Berry, and “Highway 61 Revisited” by Bob Dylan, as well as originals like “Still Alive and Well” and “I’m Yours and I’m Hers.” In the 70’s he continued to tour and record, as well as producing albums for another legend in the blues genre, Muddy Waters. That year, he played with idol BB King at the Newport Jazz Festival, and also made an appearance at Woodstock. ![]() The album featured Edgar on keyboards, and rose to number 24 on the Top 200. Winter’s first major release for Columbia, simply titled Johnny Winter, was released in June of 1969. He broke out from the Texas music scene in 1968 when a Rolling Stone magazine article brought him to national prominence, saying he played “some of the gutsiest, fluid blues guitar you ever heard.” The article brought a flood of record deals to the fledgling guitarist’s doorstep, leading to a deal with Columbia for a massive (at the time) $600,000. Johnny’s first major album release was the critically revered The Progressive Blues Experiment. Both of the brothers stood out early in the blues/rock music scene for their talented playing at a very young age, as well as their striking platinum hair and light skin due to albinism. Revisit our interview with Gregg Allman as we mourn the passing of a legendīorn John Dawson Winter III in Beaumont, Texas, Johnny was the older brother of Edgar Winter, another renowned guitar player. Getting the ghouls together? Checkout our epic Halloween Spotify playlist ![]()
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