CNY BAND PROFILE
STONE SOUL FOUNDATION
An interview with Jeff Wiggins and sean Muldoon

Auburn's Stone Soul Foundation is a self proclaimed "blues, funk, and soul injected hard rock quintet". Formed in 2002, its hard to tell whether this 5 member band has crossed many genre lines, or created their own unique sound. With influences representing the past 4 decades, Soul Stone Foundation has created quite a buzz around CNY, and are now taking aim at the rest of Upstate NY and the northeast. I recently had the chance to track them down at a few of their shows this past summer, and ask them a few questions about the band.


CNYLIVE: How did the band meet and form originally???


Jeff Wiggins: Sean our (singer) and myself (guitarist) met through friends from school. I was 14 at the time and Sean about 16. We got together one day after school and started writing songs together. Before we new it one day turned into 15 years! We've been good friends the whole time. We formed a few groups over the years, "Shepherd" which our current guitarist Dan was in for while, and "Smoke Stack". After those bands fizzled out we came up with the idea for Stone Soul Foundation, a Heavy Rock band with elements of Blues, Funk, and Metal. We wanted our music to come across with the soul of a great RNB singer or a gospel preacher. You could say that's why the name Stone Soul Foundation seemed so fitting. Then we set out to form the band. Sean met Shane Stillman at a local pub in Auburn, and through casual conversation found he was a drummer looking for a band. We auditioned Shane and he became a full fledged member of the band that day. Then we called upon our good friend Dan Dennis to fill the spot for additional guitar duties. Our original bass player wasn't working out so we recruited Doug Paradise from Seneca Falls. He was in a cover band at the time called "Shmae" and was very stoked to be part of an original band. We all have been writing and performing together as Stone Soul Foundation for several years now.


CNYLIVE: After seeing you live last month, I realized you are one of those bands that really crosses genre lines and musical time periods. How would you describe the band's music to the casual CNY fan???


Sean Muldoon: To put it quite simply we are a blues influenced hard rock band. To be more specific we are a bluesfunkboogieacidmetalrockband!


CNYLIVE: The new song 'Christian' on your myspace is great, when will we see it on a full length release??? Jeff: We'll be releasing 2 more songs on the internet,"Window" and "Ain't no Mystery" available for free download on our web-site and Myspace page. We recommend our web-site www.stonesoulfoundation.com for a higher quality Mp3. These three songs, and several others, will be on our new "to be titled record" slated for an early 2009 release.