Dire Straits, Jim Reeves and death metal in Africa

An amusing podcast at the Afropop Worldwide about the influence of American performers on African music (beyond Michael Jackson, Jimi Hendrix or James Brown). Listen to how Dire Straits became massively popular in the Sahel, influencing Tuareg rockers like Tinariwen and Tamikrest. American country superstar Jim Reeves' had an African career. Death-metal was big in Angola.