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 Melodians’ ‘Rivers of Babylon,’ plus Hot Club of Cowtown, Steve Goodman, and the Rails
Music Review: “Woodstock: Back to the Garden,’ A Gargantuan Box Set
Music Reviews: NRBQ’s ‘Turn On, Tune In,’ plus Steve Van Zandt, Donovan, and Che Apalache
Music Reviews: Steve Goodman’s ‘Artistic Hair’ and ‘Affordable Art,’ plus Chuck Hawthorne, Karen Jonas, and Rob Laufer
Music Reviews: Hank Williams’s ‘Health & Happiness Recordings,’ plus Michaela Anne, Glenna Bell, Shaun Johnson, and Chris & Adam Carroll
Music Reviews: The Rolling Stones’ ‘Bridges to Bremen,’ plus Grateful Dead and Procol Harum
Music Reviews: Glen Campbell’s ‘The Legacy,’ plus the HawtThorns, Rod Picott, and Mrs. Henry
Music Reviews: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Western Stars,’ plus Chris Stamey, Cat Stevens, and Savoy Brown
Music Reviews: Bob Dylan’s ‘Rolling Thunder Revue,’ Box Set, plus Chip & Tony Kinman, Willard Gayheart, and Meghan Hayes
Music & Film Reviews: The Rolling Stones’ ‘Rock and Roll Circus,’ plus Richard X. Heyman and the Forty Fours
Music Reviews: Shirley & Lee’s ‘Complete Singles,’ plus Resonant Rogues and Counting Crows
Music Reviews: Southside Johnny and Little Steven ‘Unplugged,’ plus R.J. Cowdery, Carlo Ditta, Greg Jacobs, Ellis Mano, and the Schramms
Music Reviews: Bob Dylan Performs for 53 People on ‘Carnegie Chapter Hall 1961,’ plus Little Steven’s ‘Summer of Sorcery’
By Jeff Burger 