Jude Warne is a music journalist and author of Lowdown: The Music of Boz Scaggs (2025) and America, The Band: An Authorized Biography (Rowman & Littlefield 2020). She has consistently published in The Observer, The Vinyl District, Live for Live Music, No Depression and Film International. She has a substantial portfolio of significant critical work, including film and music reviews, and feature-piece one-on-one interviews with rock legends Donald Fagen (Steely Dan), Gary Brooker (Procol Harum), Jim McCarty (founding member of the Yardbirds), Bobby Whitlock (Derek and the Dominoes), and Gerry Beckley (America), to name a few. She lives in New York City, NY, USA.