One Sock Missing is the second album from the Grifters released in 1993 on Shangri-La Records

Shangri-La Records

Shangri-La Projects is a record label in Memphis, Tennessee that grew out of and split off from the Shangri-la Record store in Memphis, Tennessee, and released several of the seminal records of the early 90's Memphis indie scene...

. "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 []" The album received comparisons to Captain Beefheart

Captain Beefheart

Don Van Vliet January 15, 1941 December 17, 2010) was an American musician, singer-songwriter and artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. His musical work was conducted with a rotating ensemble of musicians called The Magic Band, active between 1965 and 1982, with whom he recorded 12...

 and Pussy Galore

Pussy Galore (band)

Pussy Galore was an American garage rock band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1985. They had a constantly fluid line-up until their demise in 1990. Like many garage rock outfits, they were dogged by substance abuse problems...

 http://www.scaruffi.com/vol5/grifters.html. One Sock Missing signals the direction and sound the band would work on throughout their career http://uk.real.com/music/artist/The_Grifters/releases/One_Sock_Missing.

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)

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
  Compulsive Gamblers
  Compulsive Gamblers were a garage-rock group formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1990 by Greg Cartwright and Jack Yarber, both future members of the Oblivians.-First incarnation:...
  
  ) - Saxophone

sitting in

• Jim Cole - Kwirrr Machine
• Sherman Willmott (Shangri-La Records
  Shangri-La Records
  Shangri-La Projects is a record label in Memphis, Tennessee that grew out of and split off from the Shangri-la Record store in Memphis, Tennessee, and released several of the seminal records of the early 90's Memphis indie scene...
  
  ) - 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
  Easley McCain Recording
  Easley McCain Recording is an American recording studio, based in Memphis, Tennessee, notable for recording musicians such as Tav Falco's Panther Burns, Grifters, Pavement, Sonic Youth, Come, White Stripes, Townes Van Zandt, Pezz, Jeff Buckley, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Guided by Voices, Lydia...
  
  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" is carries the annotation "(Bonus Track)" on the sleeve, but on the CD itself it listed as the "(boGus TrAck)"