Words: Ruby Friedman
Music: Ruby Friedman, Nicholas Allan Johns 
Produced by Mitchelll Froom
Mastered by Stevie B 
Guitars: Val McCallum
Bass: Bob Glaub
Drums: Matt Chamberlain
Keys: Mitchell Froom 

I won't say goodbye 'cause this is not The End
You give me hope that I will see you again
if I can't get to Amarillo by the morn'
Meet me on Highway 40 when you're airborne

In a teardrop trailer
We're gonna live forever
We roam the country sky
And our animals are free
In a teardrop trailer we gonna live forever 
We roam the country sky and our animals are free...

Black-suited minister likes fishnets and burlesque
He says the homeless are just saints under duress
"You only need money so you can give it away"
We'll get to Portland via Grand Canyon Way. 

In a teardrop trailer we're gonna live forever
We roam the country sky and our animals are free.

Mr. Hoggatt - you made a believer out of me
With a lingering death and no self-pity
I kept you at arm's length, you touched so many
How could I know that life's too short to wait and see.

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"Modern vintage sounds that will make you laugh and cry and dance like there’s no tomorrow, Ruby Friedman is an electrifying performer and songwriter"-- KCRW, Gary Calamar  
“You don’t need to know Ruby Friedman’s life story to get a sense of who she is. Just hearing her, and better seeing her perform, tell enough. Her voice and manner are as bold and brash as her flame-red hair. But she’s telling you anyway, with ‘Fugue in L.A. Minor,’ the opening song of her long-in-coming first album, Gem…It’s quite the curtain-raiser, fitting as what follows has some theatrical punch, Vaudevillian in some spots, Brechtian in others. Well, really it’s Vaudeville-y and Brecht-y, not fully either, or any one thing at any time. Bluesy also applies. Jazzy maybe. But brassy, always…another highlight is a last-minute addition to the album, the powerful ‘Ballad of Lee Morse…’ Friedman sings the tale with a kind of force that can only come from someone who sees something, or a lot, of herself in it. It’s part celebratory, part cautionary. And all Ruby Friedman.”
--Steve Hochman, KPCC (NPR Affiliate)
"One hell of a frontwoman with a completely unique and transfixing voice laden with passion... {Gem} is a necessary addition to your music collection." --  POP MATTERS, Sarah Zupko  
"Songs of Quiet Devastation - Gem is full of intense emotion, dark and menacing, full of violent frustration and shattered expectation"  -- MAGNET MAGAZINE, J Poet

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Ruby Friedman Orchestra