One Sock Missing

One Sock Missing is the second album from the Grifters released in 1993 on Shangri-La Records. "Certainly the most low-key (if not lo-fi) of the Grifters' early records, 1993's One Sock Missing is less noisy and aggressive than its immediate predecessor, So Happy Together " One Sock Missing signals the direction and sound the band would work on throughout their career .

One Sock Missing
Studio album by
Grifters
Released1993
Recorded1992, The Flower Shop & Easley McCain Recording, Memphis, Tennessee
GenreIndie Rock, lo-fi
Length44:59 (CD)
LabelShangri-La Records
Shangri-La 004
ProducerThe Grifters & Shangri-La Records
Grifters chronology
So Happy Together
(1992)		 One Sock Missing
(1993)		 Crappin' You Negative
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Track listing
  1. "Bummer" - 2:53 (vocals Shouse)
  2. "She Blows Blasts of Static" - 4:04 (vocals Shouse)
  3. "Shark" - 4:16 (vocals Taylor)
  4. "Teenage Jesus" - 3:02 (vocals Lamkins)
  5. "'Side" - 2:50 (vocals Taylor)
  6. "#1" - 1:16 (vocals Shouse)
  7. "Tupelo Moan" - 5:06 (vocals Shouse)
  8. "Wonder" - 1:20 (vocals Taylor)
  9. "Corolla Hoist" - 4:02 (vocals Shouse)
  10. "Encrusted" - 2:19 (vocals Taylor/Shouse)
  11. "The Casual Years" - 3:19 (vocals Shouse)
  12. "Sain" - 2:28 (vocals Taylor)
  13. "Just Passing Out" - 3:21 (vocals Shouse)
  14. "I Arise" - 4:35 (vocals Taylor)

Album credits

Grifters

credited as

  • Stank Gallimore
  • Tripp Lampshade
  • Diamond Dave Shouse
  • Slim Taylor

Additional musicians

Greg Easterly (Compulsive Gamblers) - Violins and Bass on Wonder

Skronkadelic Orchestra Unlimited on I Arise

  • Jack Adcock - Gourd
  • Jimmy Enck - Sax in Tune
  • Robert Gordon - Jamming Untensil
  • Fields Trimble (Compulsive Gamblers) - Saxophone

sitting in

  • Jim Cole - Kwirrr Machine
  • Sherman Willmott (Shangri-La Records) - Bike Horn
  • Roy Berry (The Simple Ones)

Additional credits
  • Largely recorded at the Flower Shop by Roy Berry
  • Additional recording and mixing at Easley Studios by Doug Easley & Davis McCain
  • Album and disc art by Roy Berry
  • Cover drawing by Tripp Lamkins
  • Cover design by Paul W. Ringger XXIV
  • Paintings of the Grifters as a young band by Kelly
  • Cover production by Towery Publishing

Album Trivia
  • "I Arise" carries the annotation "(Bonus Track)" on the sleeve, but on the CD itself it is listed as the "(boGus TrAck)"

References
  1. One Sock Missing at AllMusic



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