Stimulator Jones

Roanoke, Virginia isn't known as a hotbed of R&B or hip-hop, but Sam Lunsford -- the producer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter known as Stimulator Jones -- has emerged to show there's plenty of soul in the Old Dominion. While he has produced sample-based tracks, Lunsford has been as stylistically adventurous with his made-from-scratch material as a crate-digging beatmaker, synthesizing early jazz-funk, psychedelia, dub reggae, and even new jack swing on his releases for the Stones Throw and Mutual Intentions labels. Since making his full-length debut with Exotic Worlds a...