Pierce Pettis and Ralston Bowles have covered a song by Mark Heard on each of their albums released since Heard's death. In 2017, an 18-song retrospective, "Mark Heard: Treasure of the Broken Land", was released. It focuses on Heard's last three albums and features Rodney Crowell, Buddy Miller, Over the Rhine and others. Produced by Phil Madeira, a member of Emmylou Harris' backing band Red Dirt Boys, the album received notable attention from "Rolling Stone Magazine" and other mainstream magazines like premier Americana music magazine "No Depression".