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 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
Music Reviews: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Letter to You,’ plus Jimmie Vaughan’s ‘The Pleasure’s All Mine’
Music Reviews: Fleetwood Mac’s ‘1969 to 1974,’ plus Steve Forbert’s ‘Rodgers Revisited’
Music Reviews: Eric Andersen’s ‘Writer Series’ and ‘Woodstock Under the Stars,’ plus Al Stewart and Kelly Finnigan
Music Reviews: Two Releases Celebrate Grateful Dead’s ‘American Beauty,’ plus Duke Robillard and Jesse Colin Young
Music Reviews: Jimi Hendrix ‘Live in Maui,’ Jerry Jeff Walker’s ‘Atco/Elektra Years,’ and Kevin Rowland’s ‘My Beauty’
By Jeff Burger 