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By Jeff Burger

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    • 14 Facts about Leonard Cohen
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Author: Jeff Burger

Jeff Burger edited Dylan on Dylan: Interviews and Encounters, Lennon on Lennon: Conversations with John Lennon, Springsteen on Springsteen: Interviews, Speeches, and Encounters, and Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters, all published in North America by Chicago Review Press. The books have been republished or set for republication in nearly a dozen other countries. Burger has been a writer and editor for five decades and has covered popular music throughout his journalism career. His reviews, essays and reportage on that and many other subjects have appeared in more than 75 magazines, newspapers and books, including Barron’s, the Los Angeles Times, Family Circle, Melody Maker, Best Classic Bands, Americana Highways, High Fidelity, Creem, Circus, Reader’s Digest, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, All Music Guide, the Morton Report, and No Depression. He has published interviews with many leading musicians, including Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Van Zandt, Tom Waits, Billy Joel, the Righteous Brothers and the members of Steely Dan; and with such public figures as Suze Orman, James Carville, Sir Richard Branson, F. Lee Bailey, Wolfman Jack, Daymond John, Donald Trump, Sydney Pollack, and Cliff Robertson. Burger has been 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 currently serves as editor of Business Jet Traveler, which the American Society of Business Publication Editors named one of the country’s best business magazines in 2011, 2013, 2016, and 2018. The magazine, which Burger joined in 2004, was also named the best consumer travel magazine in the U.S. in 2020 in the prestigious Folio: Eddie awards. Burger lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey with his wife, Madeleine Beresford, a writer, puppeteer, and preschool director and teacher. The couple have two children, Andre and Myriam.
February 24, 2021 Album Reviews

Music Reviews: The Complete Tommy James & the Shondells, Plus Lloyd Cole Live

A massive box collects everything from a group whose output included 17 Top 40 hits. Also: Lloyd Cole in concert.

February 19, 2021 Album Reviews / Film/TV Reviews

Music Reviews: Live Sets from Little Steven Plus Mac Leaphart & Michael Lawson

Steve Van Zandt delivers four CDs’ worth of live material, including a Beatles tribute in Liverpool that is also available as a video.

February 11, 2021 Album Reviews

Music Reviews: A Deluxe Edition of Wilco’s ‘Summerteeth,’ Plus David Huckfelt

A new edition of the group’s 1999 third album adds demos, outtakes, and a two-hour contemporaneous concert.

February 3, 2021 Album Reviews

Music Reviews: Box Sets Celebrate Cat Stevens’s ‘Mona Bone Jakon’ and ‘Tea for the Tillerman’

New releases deliver vastly expanded editions of the singer’s two 1970 LPs.

January 28, 2021 Album Reviews

Music Reviews: Revisiting John Prine’s Early Albums, Plus Arrica Rose and These Fine Moments

A box set collects the first seven albums from a folk genius. Plus, more noteworthy releases.

January 20, 2021 Album Reviews

Music Reviews: Dire Straits’ Studio Albums, Plus Uncle Walt’s Band & Harry Dean Stanton

Dire Straits’ studio albums, all in one place. Also, a live set from Uncle Walt’s Band and the late actor Harry Dean Stanton’s musical side.

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Newly available: A paperback North American edition of Dylan on Dylan, Japanese editions of Lennon on Lennon and Dylan on Dylan, and a Spanish edition of Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen.

Coming soon: Spanish editions of Lennon on Lennon and Dylan on Dylan and an Italian edition of Dylan on Dylan.

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