By Jeff Burger

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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.
memphis-blues-box
December 20, 2023November 4, 2025 Jeff Burger

Music Reviews: The Massive ‘Memphis Blues Box,’ plus Tom Russell and the Ink Spots

Pink Floyd-Atom Heart Mother
December 13, 2023November 4, 2025 Jeff Burger

Music Reviews: Pink Floyd’s ‘Atom Heart Mother’ Expanded, plus Sarah McKenzie, Big Country, Uncle Lucius, and a ‘Doo-Wop Christmas Party’

Bob Marley-Catch A Fire
December 6, 2023November 4, 2025 Jeff Burger

Music Reviews: Bob Marley’s ‘Catch a Fire’ Revisited and a Power Pop Anthology, plus Van Duren and John Vincent III

Frank Zappa-Over-nite Sensation
November 29, 2023 Jeff Burger

Music Reviews: Frank Zappa’s ‘Over-nite Sensation’ Box Set, the Feelies’ Velvet Underground Tribute, and More

November 22, 2023November 4, 2025 Jeff Burger

Music Reviews: Bob Dylan’s ‘The Complete Budokan 1978,’ plus Dori Freeman, Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia, Kristen Grainger & True North, and Peter Rosendal

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November 15, 2023November 4, 2025 Jeff Burger

Music Reviews: A 1967 Jimi Hendrix Concert, plus Little Feat, Jon Dee Graham, the Resonant Rogues, and Danny O’Keefe

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November 8, 2023November 4, 2025 Jeff Burger

Music Reviews: Cranberries, plus Lee Gallagher, the Three O’Clock, Sylvia Tyson, and Emma Wilson

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November 1, 2023November 4, 2025 Jeff Burger

Music Reviews: Lynyrd Skynyrd’s ‘Fyfty,’ plus Leon Rosselson, Half Stack, Robert Finley, and Chest Fever

BOB DYLAN book jacket
October 25, 2023November 4, 2025 Jeff Burger

Book & Music Reviews: ‘Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine,’ plus the Third Mind, Robert Rex Waller Jr., and Luke LeBlanc

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October 18, 2023 Jeff Burger

Music Reviews: Joni Mitchell’s ‘Archives, Vol. 3,’ plus Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus, Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon, and Jim Wyly

Grateful Dead-Wake of the Flood
October 10, 2023November 4, 2025 Jeff Burger

Music Reviews: Grateful Dead’s Expanded ‘Wake of the Flood,’ plus Benny Goodman, Mac Curtis, Adam Palma, Be, and Ed Sweeney

October 4, 2023November 4, 2025 Jeff Burger

Music Reviews: Tom Waits Reissues, plus Wilco, the Brother Boys, Logan Ledger, and a Nanci Griffith Tribute

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September 27, 2023November 4, 2025 Jeff Burger

Music Reviews: Miles Davis, Bobby Sutliff, Mac Wiseman, Clarence White, Shadwick Wilde, and the Sextones

September 20, 2023December 6, 2023 Jeff Burger

Music Reviews: Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours Live,’ Willie Nelson’s ‘Bluegrass,’ Genya Ravan’s Reissues, and More

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September 13, 2023November 4, 2025 Jeff Burger

Music Reviews: The Doors’ ‘Live at the Matrix,’ plus Graham Parker, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, and Popa Chubby

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