Miss Happiness
Introduction '''''Miss Happiness''''' is the debut studio album by the American alternative rock band Walt Mink, released in 1992.It contains a cover of Nick Drake's "Pink Moon". The band supported the album with a North American tour.
Critical reception ''USA Today'' wrote: "An idiosyncratic Cream for the '90s, Walt Mink adds daring innovation to the power trio formula." The ''St. Petersburg Times'' called the album a "kooky concoction of psychedelia and heavy metal. "The ''Orlando Sentinel'' determined that Walt Mink "has the chops and creativity of King's X but with more concision and without all the artsy overambition and concept baggage." ''Stereo Review'' labeled ''Miss Happiness'' "a mixture of guitar-driven sass and twee-voiced smarm. "AllMusic deemed the album "one of the brightest debuts of the '90s."
Track listing All songs written by John Kimbrough except Pink Moon, written by Nick Drake.# "Miss Happiness" – 3:26# "Chowder Town" – 3:02# "Love You Better" – 3:55# "Showers Down" – 4:08# "Quiet Time" – 3:32# "Pink Moon" – 3:15# "Smoothing the Ride" – 3:09# "Croton-Harmon (local)" – 3:32# "Twinkle and Shine" – 3:03# "Factory" – 5:53
Personnel *John Kimbrough – guitar, vocals*Candice Belanoff – bass guitar, backing vocals*Joey Waronker – drums, percussion, backing vocals*Doug "Mr Colson" Olson – production, engineering, mix*Brian Anderson – engineering*Daniel Corrigan – cover photograph*Jen Schmid – painting
References
External links *  "Releases" page on Walt Mink's official site @  The Internet Archive (includes lyrics)