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 Beat Farmers, James Holvay, Will Porter, and Mary Karlzen
Music Reviews & More: Hope Dunbar, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Wild & Blue, the Dinallos, and Allen Ginsberg
Music Reviews: Sunny War, Cole Quest, Claire Kelly, Megan Lacy, Josh Caterer, and John Smith
Music Reviews: ‘Bob Dylan 1970,’ plus New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers, Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno, and 3 Pairs of Boots
Music Reviews: The Band’s ‘Stage Fright’ Expanded, plus Sara Petite, Domenic Cicala, and the Red Step
Music Reviews: The Complete Tommy James & the Shondells, plus Lloyd Cole Live
Music & Film Reviews: Little Steven’s ‘Soul Fire Live!’ & ‘Macca to Mecca!’ plus Mac Leaphart & Michael Lawson
Music Reviews: a Deluxe Edition of Wilco’s ‘Summerteeth,’ plus David Huckfelt
Music Reviews: Box Sets Celebrate Cat Stevens’s ‘Mona Bone Jakon’ and ‘Tea for the Tillerman’
Music Reviews: ‘Crooked Piece of Time’ Collects John Prine’s Early Albums, plus Arrica Rose and These Fine Moments
Music Reviews: Dire Straits’ ‘The Studio Albums,’ plus Uncle Walt’s Band and Harry Dean Stanton
Music Reviews: Prince’s ‘Sign O’ the Times’ (Super Deluxe Edition), plus Richard Hell
Music & Book Reviews: Joni Mitchell’s ‘Archives, Volume 1,’ plus John Lennon’s Solo Years
By Jeff Burger 