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: The Rolling Stones’ ‘El Mocambo 1977,’ plus Neurotic Outsiders, Railroad Earth, and Asleep at the Wheel
Music Reviews: Mary Gauthier, John Coltrane, Charlie Musselwhite, Edie Carey, Michael McDermott, and Laney Jones
Music Reviews: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Banditos, Bryan Ferry, Heidi Talbot, Zero, and May Erlewine
Music Reviews: John Fred, Caroline Spence, Abbie Gardner, the Muffs, Delbert McClinton, Abigail Lapell, and Marc Jordan & Amy Sky
Musician Interview: Steve Forbert
Music Reviews: The Crests’ ‘Sixteen Candles: The Definitive Collection 1957–62,’ plus Michael Weston King and My Darling Clementine
Music Reviews: The Knack’s ‘Live at the House of Blues,’ plus Ann Peebles, Barney Bentall, and Steven Casper
Music Reviews: Mark Knopfler’s ‘The Studio Albums 1996–2007,’ plus Jesper Lindell’s ‘Twilights’
Music Reviews: Willy DeVille’s ‘Venus of the Docks,’ plus Erika Lewis, Michelle Malone, and Stew Cutler
Music Reviews: Rain Perry’s ‘A White Album,’ Bobby Cole’s ‘A Point of View,’ Giulia Millanta’s ‘Woman on the Moon,’ and Ronnie Earl’s ‘Mercy Me’
Music Reviews: Scott McCarl’s ‘Play On,’ Surrender Hill’s ‘Just Another Honky Tonk,’ Jose Ramirez’s ‘Major League Blues,’ and the Waymores’ ‘Stone Sessions’
Music Reviews: The Loud Family with Anton Barbeau, Son House, Bailey Bigger, and Bart Davenport
Music Reviews: Ian Noe and Duke Robillard, plus Genevieve Racette and Jefferson Ross
By Jeff Burger 