''Give Us Barabbas'' is the fifth studio album of the American rock band

Masters of Reality Masters of Reality is an American rock band formed in 1981 by frontman Chris Goss and guitarist Tim Harrington in Syracuse, New York, United States. They took the name for the band from a misprinted label of the third Black Sabbath album, '' ...

, released in 2004. Material for the album comes from sessions for a planned release on

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in the mid 1990s entitled ''The Ballad of Jody Frosty'', which was shelved at the time, hence the change in line-up. The recording coincides with the live album ''

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'', released in 1997.

Track listing

Credits

Chris Goss Chris Goss is an American record producer and musician. Best known for producing records for Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age, he is regarded as an important figure in the development of stoner rock and desert rock genres. Goss is also the ...

– vocals, guitar, keyboard *Googe – bass guitar *

Victor Indrizzo Victor Indrizzo (born September 23, 1967) is an American session musician, primarily known for playing the drums, as well as a songwriter and producer. Indrizzo was born in Freeport, Long Island, New York. He has toured, recorded and worked wit ...

– drums ; Additional personnel *Chris Palmer – drums ("It's So Hard") *

Ginger Baker Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker (19 August 1939 – 6 October 2019) was an English drummer. His work in the 1960s and 1970s earned him the reputation of "rock's first superstar drummer", for a style that melded jazz and Music of Africa, Africa ...

– drums ("The Desert Song") *

Scott Weiland Scott Richard Weiland (, ; né Kline; October 27, 1967 – December 3, 2015) was an American singer and songwriter. He was best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Stone Temple Pilots from 1989 to 2003 and again from 2008 to 2013, r ...

– guest vocals ("Jindalee Jindalie") *Lily Haydn – violin ("Brown House on the Green Road") *

Andy Kaulkin Anti- is an American record label founded in 1999 as a sister label to Epitaph Records. Founded by Andy Kaulkin, Anti- first gained attention by releasing Tom Waits's Grammy Award–winning ''Mule Variations'' in 1999. Other veteran recording ...

– electric piano ("Brown House on the Green Road") *

Brendon McNichol Brendon McNichol (born November 1969) is an American multi-instrumentalist, best known as a member of Queens of the Stone Age and Masters of Reality. He has also contributed to recordings by the Desert Sessions, played with artists and bands such ...

–

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and balalaika guitar ("Off To Tiki Ti", "Hey Diana", "I Walk Beside Your Love")

References

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