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)

One Sock Missing is the second album by the American band the Grifters, released in 1993 on Shangri-La Records.[1][2] The album was an underground hit.[3] It was reissued by Fat Possum Records in 2016.[4]

Production

The album was in part recorded at Easley McCain Recording, in Memphis, Tennessee.[5] "I Arise" is a bonus track on the vinyl format of the album.[6]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[7]

Trouser Press wrote that "Shouse and Taylor (who split vocals) often slip into a laconic saunter that’s a little too close for comfort to Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus’ slacker slump."[8] Billboard called "Corolla Hoist" "one of the great lofi singles."[9] The Staten Island Advance praised the band's "process of chopping, skewing, rearranging and mixing the standard formulas of various musical genres into a whole new ball of wax."[10]

AllMusic stated: "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."[7] Magnet noted: "Few indie-rock groups of this time pulled off such an emotionally cathartic and powerful mix of desperate darkness, dynamic heaviness, convincingly abstract drug-influenced weirdness, unbelievably infectious and gorgeous hooks, real wall-shredding sheets of noise and discordance, and low-key every-guy approachability."[11]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Stank Gallimore, Tripp Lampshade, Diamond Dave Shouse and Slim Taylor

No.TitleLead vocalsLength
1."Bummer"Diamond Dave Shouse2:53
2."She Blows Blasts of Static"Diamond Dave Shouse4:04
3."Shark"Slim Taylor4:16
4."Teenage Jesus"Tripp Lampshade3:02
5."Side"Slim Taylor2:50
6."#1"Diamond Dave Shouse1:16
7."Tupelo Moan"Diamond Dave Shouse5:06
8."Wonder"Slim Taylor1:20
9."Corolla Hoist"Diamond Dave Shouse4:02
10."Encrusted"Slim Taylor/Diamond Dave Shouse2:19
11."The Casual Years"Diamond Dave Shouse3:19
12."Sain"Slim Taylor2:28
13."Just Passing Out"Diamond Dave Shouse3:21
14."I Arise"Slim Taylor4:35
Total length:44:59

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

References

  1. ↑ "Grifters Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  2. ↑ Unsworth, Cathy (Jun 26, 1993). "Put a sock in it". Melody Maker. 69 (26): 29.
  3. ↑ Valania, Jonathan (July 23, 1994). "IT'S NOT LACK OF CONFIDENCE THAT MAKES THE GRIFTERS WANT TO HIDE". The Morning Call. p. A57.
  4. ↑ "Grifters Reissues". The Commercial Appeal. 26 Feb 2016. p. G6.
  5. ↑ Earles, Andrew (September 15, 2014). Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996. Voyageur Press. ISBN 9781627883795 – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ Davis, Erik (Aug 1993). "Spins". Spin. 9 (5): 86.
  7. 1 2 "Grifters - One Sock Missing Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  8. ↑ "Grifters". Trouser Press. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  9. ↑ Bambarger, Bradley (Sep 27, 1997). "Grifters give weight to Indie rock scene". Billboard. Vol. 109, no. 39. pp. 11, 108.
  10. ↑ Wright, Tom (November 28, 1993). "GRIFTERS' 'ONE SOCK MISSING' A GEM". Staten Island Advance. p. E3.
  11. ↑ "Essential New Music: Grifters' "One Sock Missing" And "Crappin' You Negative"". Magnet. September 8, 2016.
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