Sam Roberts says, “I listen to mainly South African jazz, like kwela music. I listen to a lot of West African music, Nigerian, Fela Kuti, (King) Sunny Ade, anything with a beat.  Even the way that I play guitar has been inspired by it, even since I was a little kid, those were my guitar heroes. Obviously, I love Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix, but Paul Simon’s Graceland was just as important a record to me for that reason.” His new album this year is “Collider.