One Sock Missing

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

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

Critical reception
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." Billboard called "Corolla Hoist" "one of the great lofi singles." 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."

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."

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 sitting in
 * Jack Adcock – Gourd
 * Jimmy Enck – Sax in Tune
 * Robert Gordon – Jamming Untensil
 * Fields Trimble (Compulsive Gamblers) – Saxophone
 * 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