Jeff Slate

Jeff Slate is a New York City-based songwriter and music journalist. His writing can be found in The New Yorker, Esquire, The Wall Street Journal, and Rolling Stone, among others. Jeff has appered on stage and worked with music legends like Pete Townshend, Roger McGuinn, Jeff Tweedy, Sheryl Crow, and others, and his music has appeared in advertising and films and on television, including in the show Gossip Girl. Jeff is also a regular guest host on SiriusXM's Volume channel, is the co-author of the 2017 book The Authorized Roy Orbison with the late legend's sons, and has written liner notes for albums by Orbison, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Jimi Hendrix, among many others, including Bob Dylan's The Bootleg Series Vol. 14: More Blood, More Tracks.