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 Review: Expanded Beatles’ ‘White Album’ Features a 5.1 Mix, Session Gems, and More
Music Reviews: Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Electric Ladyland’ Box Set, plus a Blues Anthology, Brother Brothers, Procol Harum and Glen Campbell
Music Reviews: Lefty Frizzell’s ‘An Article from Life’ Box Set, plus Velvet Underground, Roy Orbison, Louise Goffen, and More
Music Review: A Box Set Unveils the Complete Sessions for Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks’
‘New Yorker’ Article Chronicles Making of Classic Dylan Track
Music Reviews: The Moody Blues’s ‘In Search of the Lost Chord’ Box Set, plus Ben Sidran, Whose Hat is This?, and John Akapo
Music Reviews: ‘Appleseed’s 21st Anniversary’ Folk Anthology, plus Michael Martin Murphey, Belle Plaine, Yum-Yum, and Lee Michaels
Music Reviews: The Ramones Turn Down a ‘Road to Ruin,’ plus Johnny & Jaalene, Dave Keller, and Permanent Green Light
Music Review: A Dramatically Expanded Edition of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’
Music & Book Reviews: The Doors’ ‘Waiting for the Sun’ Turns 50, plus Granville Automatic, Linda Thompson, and a Bruce Springsteen Biography
Music Reviews: Led Zeppelin’s Upgraded ‘The Song Remains the Same,’ plus Jamie Lin Wilson, Kenny Wayne, Jellyman’s Daughter, and Jim Wyly
Film & Music Reviews: Joni Mitchell’s ‘Live at the Isle of Wight Festival,’ plus Swans, Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard, and Ever More Nest
Book & Music Reviews: Steve Forbert’s ‘Big City Cat’ and ‘Magic Tree,’ plus Anthony Geraci, Vanessa Peters, and Chris Darrow & Max Buda
By Jeff Burger 