One Sock Missing

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One Sock Missing
One Sock Missing cover
Studio album by Grifters
Released 1993
Recorded 1992, The Flower Shop & Easley McCain Recording, Memphis, Tennessee
Genre Indie Rock
Length 44:59 (CD)
Label Shangri-La Records
Shangri-La 004
Producer The Grifters & Shangri-La Records
Professional reviews
Grifters chronology
So Happy Together
(1992)
One Song Missing
(1993)
Crappin' You Negative
(1994)

One Sock Missing is the second album from the Grifters released in 1993 on Shangri-La Records [1]. "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 [2]" The album received comparisons to Captain Beefheart and Pussy Galore [3]. It's predecessor Crappin' You Negative would receive better reviews [4] but One Sock Missing signals the direction and sound the band would perfect throughout their career [5].

Contents

[edit] 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 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)

[edit] Album Credits

[edit] Grifters

credited as

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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

[edit] Album Trivia

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

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