{"id":3447,"date":"2021-11-15T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2021-11-08T15:08:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T20:08:21","slug":"arachnophonia-rocky-raccoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/2021\/11\/arachnophonia-rocky-raccoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Arachnophonia: “Rocky Raccoon”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> Arachnophonia<\/a> (\u201cArachno\u201d = spider \/ \u201c-phonia\u201d = sound) is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library<\/a>\u2018s collection.<\/p>\n

All links included in these posts will take you to either the library catalog record for the item in question<\/a> or to additional relevant<\/a> information from<\/a> around the web<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s installment of Arachnophonia<\/a> is by student manager Allison (class of 2022) and features “Rocky Raccoon”<\/a>, a 1968 song by the Beatles<\/a>. Thanks, Allison!<\/em><\/p>\n

The Beatles – “Rocky Raccoon”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Rocky<\/a>

Rocky Raccoon illustration by Jim McHugh of mcillustrator.com (used with permission of artist)<\/p><\/div>\n

I was first introduced to “Rocky Raccoon”<\/a> in middle school during a guitar lesson. My teacher gave me the song to learn because I was gaining more interest in The Beatles and he thought it was a fun one. This further introduced me to some of the more eclectic and trippy songs among their lengthy discography. <\/p>\n

The Beatles<\/a> were an English rock band during the 1960s. Although their music is still very prevalent today, the band was only together for approximately a decade. Throughout this period, they produced numerous albums which were all regarded very highly by their global audience. “Rocky Raccoon”<\/a> was one of many songs on The Beatles’ “White album”<\/a> which was released in 1968. <\/p>\n

Throughout the years, “Rocky Raccoon”<\/a> has remained one of my favorite songs by The Beatles and is definitely one of my favorite songs to play on guitar. What I like most about the song is the chord<\/a> progression<\/a>. It’s written in a way that you could just keep playing it over and over. It may just be a silly song about a raccoon; however, the chord progression is what makes the song in my opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note: Arachnophonia (\u201cArachno\u201d = spider \/ \u201c-phonia\u201d = sound) is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library\u2018s collection. All links included in these … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61217,15223],"tags":[1231,61217,37981,15234,15334,191389,162553,37978,35898,30086],"class_list":["post-3447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arachnophonia","category-collection","tag-allison","tag-arachnophonia","tag-beatles","tag-collection-2","tag-popular-music","tag-rocky-raccoon","tag-song","tag-student-workers","tag-students","tag-the-beatles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgMV3E-TB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3455,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions\/3455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}