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There are points in your life that are defined by music. Whether it’s a song that introduced you to a genre of music that changed the direction of your tastes and style, or a lyric that made you think about the world in a different way. Songs represent relationships. Songs can trigger memories.
All of these are Crucial Tracks.
Our Crucial Tracks interview series helps us learn about the songs that made each of us who we are today. We love to feature folks from all walks of life, so don't be shy! Your story is way more interesting than you probably think...
If you've made it this far, thank you for your interest in participating! All of our standard interview questions can be found below. If you have any questions or need guidance, let us know!
Once you are ready with your answers, send an email or the completed text file to hello@crucialtracks.org and we’ll follow up with questions (if necessary) and when we can fit you in to our publishing queue.
We look forward to hearing your story!
— Jason and Chris
Intro Questions:
- To start out, can you tell us a little about yourself and where people can follow your work?
- How do you listen to music? (albums, playlists, radio?)
- Digital or physical releases? What service or media (vinyl, CD, tapes, etc)?
- In terms of picking music, do you stick to your favorites or search for new music or is it a mix?
- If you try to find new music, how do you go about finding new artists or albums?
Your Crucial Tracks
Think about each of these points in your life and pick one song for each and share why you picked it and what the song means to you.
- Your earliest song/music memory
- A song from childhood
- A song from teenage years
- A song from college or early adulthood
- A song from your current/most recent relationship *
* We understand this one may be difficult, so totally optional! - Your favorite song from the last year
- BONUS (optional): come up with your own question, if you’d like to feature a favorite artist or album that didn’t get covered in one of the other six questions. For example, we had an interviewee go with “What’s your most listened to artist of the last 20 years?” so they could talk about their favorite band and album.
In addition to the answers, we will need:
- A photo to use as the featured image for your post
- 4 to 6 (or more!) additional songs to include in your playlist
The interview questions in a text file:
2025 Schedule
Our goal for this year is to feature at least one interview per month, with a stretch goal of posting two each month. As of February 12th, we are pretty flexible with scheduling March and beyond!