Tonight I'll Go Down Swinging A Tribute to Don Heffington

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Don Heffington was a musician's musician. Starting his professional career in the late 1970s and early 1980s with Emmylou Harris's Hot Band and the alt-country pioneers Lone Justice, Heffington pursued a session career that included work with Bob Dylan, Dwight Yoakam, The Jayhawks, Dave Alvin, The Wallflowers, and many others. Heffington was also a prolific songwriter, and here, his colleagues and friends pay a heartfelt tribute to these songs for the benefit of 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 perform Don's quirky songs. To quote Jackson Browne: "I think (Don) inhabits the same Los Angeles as Warren Zevon, Lowell George, and Tom Waits."