{"id":915,"date":"2018-02-12T05:18:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T05:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlevillagefoundation.com\/?p=915"},"modified":"2018-06-29T03:23:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T03:23:26","slug":"desert-sun-article-sean-wheeler-conquered-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/littlevillagefoundation.com\/lv2021\/desert-sun-article-sean-wheeler-conquered-demons\/","title":{"rendered":"DESERT SUN: SEAN WHEELER HAS CONQUERED HIS DEMONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p-text\"><strong>The Desert Sun<\/strong><br \/>\nBruce Fessier<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Wheeler has led more than a dozen bands over 36 years, playing hybrid genres he\u2019s invented, such as \u201cpolitical sleng teng,\u201d \u201cproto-emo jangle rock\u201d and \u201cglam-inspired punk pop.\u201d He might have set the precedent for desert rockers such as Josh Homme and Brant Bjork to feel it\u2019s more important to be original than famous. His groups have opened for major artists as diverse as Queens of the Stone Age and Willie Nelson. But\u00a0at 51, Wheeler is more a working rock-blues singer than a star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Still, as a pioneering desert rocker and fourth-generation Palm Springs resident, he\u2019s justified in calling himself \u201cDesert Legend Sean Wheeler\u201d on his latest album, \u201cSand In My Blood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">\u201cSean was stoner rock 10 years too early,\u201d said Bjork, co-leader with Homme of the \u201890s desert rock band, Kyuss, and a recent collaborator with Wheeler. \u201cSean is a true soul man and he personifies the desert unlike anyone I\u2019ve ever known. His desert roots go back to the origin of Palm Springs. He is roots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.com\/story\/life\/entertainment\/music\/2018\/01\/26\/pioneering-rocker-sean-wheeler-has-conquered-his-demons-ready-take-his-place-music-desert-histor\/921889001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Desert Sun Bruce Fessier Wheeler has led more than a dozen bands over 36 years, playing hybrid genres he\u2019s invented, such as \u201cpolitical sleng teng,\u201d \u201cproto-emo jangle rock\u201d and \u201cglam-inspired punk pop.\u201d He might have set the precedent for desert rockers such as Josh Homme and Brant Bjork to feel it\u2019s more important to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DESERT SUN: SEAN WHEELER HAS CONQUERED HIS DEMONS - 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