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: Del Shannon’s ‘Dublin Sessions’ and Big Star ‘Live at Lafayette’s Music Room,’ plus John Gorka and the Railsplitters
Music Reviews: Arthur Lee’s Love Shine on ‘Complete Forever Changes Live,’ plus Raven and Red, Dinosaur Eyelids, and More
Music Reviews: Van Morrison’s ‘Versatile,’ plus Mark Olson, Michael Johnathon, and Ethiopian & His All Stars
Music Reviews: ‘The Roots of Popular Music,’ plus America, Laura Benitez, and Sofia Talvik
Music & Book Reviews: Box Sets Celebrate the Ramones’ ‘Rocket to Russia’ and ‘Leave Home,’ plus ‘Hendrix: The Illustrated Story’
Music Reviews: The Gargantuan ‘Cool Blue Christmas’ Collects Vintage Holiday-Themed Songs, plus Samantha Fish and the Searchers
Music Reviews: ‘Trouble No More’ Spotlights One of Bob Dylan’s Most Controversial Eras, plus Jeffrey Martin and Rusty Young
Music Reviews: ‘At the Louisiana Hayride Tonight’ Celebrates an Important Chapter in American Music, plus Johnny Nicholas and Jim Byrnes
Music Reviews: ‘Woody Guthrie—The Tribute Concerts,’ plus Chris Barron and Rob Williams
Music Reviews: Tim Buckley’s ‘Venice Mating Call,’ ‘Greetings from West Hollywood,’ ‘The Dream Belongs to Me,’ ‘Sefronia,’ and ‘Look at the Fool’
Music Review: David Bowie’s ‘A New Career in a New Town’ Box Set
Film & Music Reviews: The Who’s ‘Tommy Live at the Royal Albert Hall,’ plus Tom Russell and More
Music Reviews: ‘For Those Who Came After—Songs of Resistance from the Spanish Civil War,’ plus Jerry Yester and More
By Jeff Burger 