A writer and editor for many years, Jeff Burger has covered popular music throughout his journalism career. His reviews, essays, and reportage on that and many other subjects have been published in more than 75 magazines and newspapers, including Barron’s, the Los Angeles Times, Family Circle, Melody Maker, High Fidelity, Creem, Circus, Reader’s Digest, GQ, All Music Guide, the Berkeley Barb, Country Standard Time, SeattlePI, and No Depression. His music reviews now appear regularly on this website and in such other publications as Best Classic Bands, Americana Highways, Blogcritics, and The Aquarian.

Burger’s books include Dylan on Dylan: Interviews and Encounters, Lennon on Lennon: Conversations with John Lennon, Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters, and Springsteen on Springsteen: Interviews, Speeches, and Encounters, all of which are published in the U.S. and Canada by Chicago Review Press. The books have been republished in numerous other countries, including England, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, France, Hungary, Argentina, Japan, Turkey, and Italy.

Burger has interviewed many luminaries from the music world, including Bruce Springsteen, Steve Van Zandt, Roger McGuinn, John Sebastian, Wolfman Jack, Tom Waits, Foreigner’s Mick Jones, Billy Joel, Steve Forbert, Tommy James, the Righteous Brothers, Gordon Lightfoot, Deep Purple’s Tommy Bolin, and members of Steely Dan and the Marshall Tucker Band. He has also interviewed many other public figures, such as Suze Orman, Daymond John, James Carville, Donald Trump, Sir Richard Branson, F. Lee Bailey, and Cliff Robertson.

Burger has been the editor of several periodicals, including Phoenix magazine in Arizona, and he spent 14 years in senior positions at Medical Economics magazine, the country’s largest business magazine for doctors. A former consulting editor at Time Inc., he retired in March 2024 as the editor of Business Jet Traveler, which won more than 120 editorial awards during his 20 years with the publication. In annual competitions sponsored by the American Society of Business Publication Editors, BJT has been cited for general excellence and named one of the country’s best business magazines in 2011, 2013, 2016, and 2018. The publication has also won several Folio: Eddie Awards for Best Consumer Travel Magazine, most recently in 2020.

A graduate of the State University of New York at Albany, Burger grew up on Long Island and now lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey. His wife, Madeleine Beresford, is a puppeteer and former preschool director and teacher. The couple have two grown children.

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For more about Burger’s work, please see Chicago Review Press Author Page, Amazon Author Page, and LinkedIn Profile.