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Best Avant-Folk - LA Weekly
Don Heffington is known as the drummer of a thousand sessions behind names like Dylan and Emmylou. In 2014, he released his first solo album, Gloryland. Fronting what sounds like a Salvation Army band before they sobered up, it's a collection of folk song laments (or lamentable folk songs) from the perspective of L.A.'s losers. He followed that with 2015's Contemporary Abstractions in Folk Song and Dance, recorded with lead guitarist Tim Young and upright bassist Sebastian Steinberg. That trio plus guests have been packing local clubs like downtown's Love Song bar, wowing 'em with “John Coltrane on the Jukebox” and the Tom Waits co-written “Seeds on Hard Ground,” blending Don's wry spoken/sung delivery with mirthful melody and joyful noise. —Michael Simmons

VETERAN DRUMMER DON HEFFINGTON STEPS UP TO PLAY HIS OWN MUSIC... By Bliss Bowen

Don Heffington: Dave Alvin's studio drummer sets out on his own for Gloryland by Tom Wilk

A brilliant, famous and beloved drummer, he’s drummed with countless legends, including Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Percy Sledge, Van Dyke Parks, Peter Case, Dave Alvin, Lone Justice, The Wallflowers and more. Yet here on his solo album, he plays no drums. A brilliant move, it is, as it focuses our attention on his greatly original and wonderfully...
-Paul Zollo, American Songwriter Magazine