One Sock Missing
{{short description|1993 album}}
{{for|the lost item of clothing|Missing sock}}
{{Infobox album
| name = One Sock Missing
| type = Album
| artist = Grifters
| cover = Grifters One Sock Missing.JPG
| alt =
| released = 1993
| recorded = 1992, The Flower Shop & Easley McCain Recording, Memphis, Tennessee
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Indie Rock, lo-fi
| length = 44:59 (CD)
| label = Shangri-La Records
Shangri-La 004
| producer = The Grifters & Shangri-La Records
| prev_title = So Happy Together
| prev_year = 1992
| next_title = Crappin' You Negative
| next_year = 1994
}}
One Sock Missing is the second album by the American band the Grifters, released in 1993 on Shangri-La Records.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/grifters-mn0000764834/biography|title=Grifters Biography, Songs, & Albums|website=AllMusic}}{{cite journal |last1=Unsworth |first1=Cathy |title=Put a sock in it |journal=Melody Maker |date=Jun 26, 1993 |volume=69 |issue=26 |page=29}} The album was an underground hit.{{cite news |last1=Valania |first1=Jonathan |title=IT'S NOT LACK OF CONFIDENCE THAT MAKES THE GRIFTERS WANT TO HIDE |work=The Morning Call |date=July 23, 1994 |page=A57}} It was reissued by Fat Possum Records in 2016.{{cite news |title=Grifters Reissues |work=The Commercial Appeal |date=26 Feb 2016 |page=G6}}
Production
The album was in part recorded at Easley McCain Recording, in Memphis, Tennessee.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D_eKBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA133|title=Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996|first=Andrew|last=Earles|date=September 15, 2014|publisher=Voyageur Press|isbn=9781627883795 |via=Google Books}} "I Arise" is a bonus track on the vinyl format of the album.{{cite journal |last1=Davis |first1=Erik |title=Spins |journal=Spin |date=Aug 1993 |volume=9 |issue=5 |page=86}}
Critical reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/one-sock-missing-mw0000099219|title=Grifters - One Sock Missing Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}
}}
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."{{cite web |title=Grifters |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/grifters/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=19 October 2022}} Billboard called "Corolla Hoist" "one of the great lofi singles."{{cite magazine |last1=Bambarger |first1=Bradley |title=Grifters give weight to Indie rock scene |magazine=Billboard |date=Sep 27, 1997 |volume=109 |issue=39 |pages=11, 108}} 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."{{cite news |last1=Wright |first1=Tom |title=GRIFTERS' 'ONE SOCK MISSING' A GEM |work=Staten Island Advance |date=November 28, 1993 |page=E3}}
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." 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."{{Cite web|url=https://magnetmagazine.com/2016/09/08/essential-new-music-grifters-one-sock-missing-and-crappin-you-negative/|title=Essential New Music: Grifters' "One Sock Missing" And "Crappin' You Negative"|work=Magnet|date=September 8, 2016}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| headline =
| extra_column = Lead vocals
| total_length = 44:59
| all_writing = Stank Gallimore, Tripp Lampshade, Diamond Dave Shouse and Slim Taylor
| title1 = Bummer
| extra1 = Diamond Dave Shouse
| length1 = 2:53
| title2 = She Blows Blasts of Static
| extra2 = Diamond Dave Shouse
| length2 = 4:04
| title3 = Shark
| extra3 = Slim Taylor
| length3 = 4:16
| title4 = Teenage Jesus
| extra4 = Tripp Lampshade
| length4 = 3:02
| title5 = Side
| extra5 = Slim Taylor
| length5 = 2:50
| title6 = #1
| extra6 = Diamond Dave Shouse
| length6 = 1:16
| title7 = Tupelo Moan
| extra7 = Diamond Dave Shouse
| length7 = 5:06
| title8 = Wonder
| extra8 = Slim Taylor
| length8 = 1:20
| title9 = Corolla Hoist
| extra9 = Diamond Dave Shouse
| length9 = 4:02
| title10 = Encrusted
| extra10 = Slim Taylor/Diamond Dave Shouse
| length10 = 2:19
| title11 = The Casual Years
| extra11 = Diamond Dave Shouse
| length11 = 3:19
| title12 = Sain
| extra12 = Slim Taylor
| length12 = 2:28
| title13 = Just Passing Out
| extra13 = Diamond Dave Shouse
| length13 = 3:21
| title14 = I Arise
| extra14 = Slim Taylor
| length14 = 4:35
}}
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