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 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 newspapers and print and online magazines, 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, John Sebastian, 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 former preschool director and teacher. The couple have two grown children.
Music Reviews: A Charles Mingus Box, plus Eliza Gilkyson, Tracy Nelson, Asha Wells, and a Tribute to Badfinger’s Pete Ham
Music Reviews: Expanded Reissues of Little Feat’s ‘Sailin’ Shoes’ and ‘Dixie Chicken,’ plus Son Volt, Ags Connolly, and Bob Bradshaw
Music Reviews: A Doo-wop Anthology, plus Sara Petite, Brian Krumm, the Anderson Council, Lars Jansson & Thomas Agergaard, Carl Dobkins, Jr., Kenny Rogers, Ellis Paul, and JD Darling
Music & Film Reviews: Bob Dylan’s Sensational ‘Shadow Kingdom,’ plus Steve Forbert and Tremoloco
Music Reviews: Li’l Andy, Galen & Paul, Jorma Kaukonen, Keturah, the Ironsides, and Andy Hedges
Music Reviews: Paul Simon’s ‘Seven Psalms,’ plus Wild Carnation, Iron Horse, Eddie Cochran, Hudspeth & Taylor, and Michael Jerome Browne
Film & Music Reviews: DVDs Capture San Francisco Music’s Glory Days, plus Frankie Ford, Bill Pritchard, Cal Tjader, & David Deacon
Music Reviews: Stephen Stills, plus a Willie Nelson Tribute, Taj Mahal, the Rifters, Arwen Lewis, Mulo Francel, and Chet Baker
Music Reviews: Blood, Sweat & Tears, plus Sir Douglas Quintet, Marc Jordan, Esther Rose, Muddy Waters, and Eddie Money
R.I.P., Gordon Lightfoot (1938–2023)
Music Reviews: The Vogues, Cowboy Dave, Julie Christensen, Fruit Bats, Adam Klein, Arkansauce, and Charlie Parker
Music & Film Reviews: Early Rockers Darlene Love, Dion, Clyde McPhatter, & Charlie Feathers
Music Reviews: ‘The British Psychedelic Sounds of 1967’ and More New Releases
By Jeff Burger 