Tonight I'll Go Down Swingin': A Tribute To Don Heffington

Don Heffington was a musician's musician. Starting his professional career in the late 70s and early 80s as a part of Emmylou Harris' Hot Band and seminal alt-country pioneers Lone Justice, Heffington went on to a session career that included work with Bob Dylan, Dwight Yoakam, The Jayhawks, Dave Alvin, The Wallflowers, and many, many more. Heffington was also a prolific songwriter, and here, his colleagues and friends pay loving tribute to those songs in a benefit for the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund (Heffington passed away in 2021 from Leukemia). Artists such as Jackson Browne, Fiona Apple, Buddy Miller, Dave Alvin, Watkins Family Hour, Peter Case, and others interpret Don's quirky songs. In the words of Jackson Browne: "I think of (Don) as inhabiting the same Los Angeles as Warren Zevon, Lowell George and Tom Waits.”

A1. Kiss The Moon Goodbye - Watkins Family Hour

A2. Fired Again - Buddy Miller

A3. Avenue C - Dave Alvin

A4. Generator - Eleni Mandell

A5. Put A Kiss And A Tear In Yr. Letter - Inara George

B1. Everywhere I Look - Jackson Browne

B2. Live Slow, Die Old - John C. Reilly

B3. Lately - Fiona Apple

B4. Crablike & Quaaludes - The Boltcutters

B5. Tonight I'll Go Down Swingin' - Don Heffington