Rising folk-rocker Tommy Prine comes to Columbus with much more than a last name. When the Local chatted with Tommy Prine by phone from his home in East Nashville in mid-April, the ascendant rock/folk/country singing poet had not yet come down with a case of pneumonia that would shelve his band’s Deep South string of shows, which included a stop at the Loft in Columbus. He had, however, already embarked on a blockbuster year that started with some time on the road with fellow genius/maverick, Jason Isbell. Roughly 20 years Prine’s senior, Isbell is the simpatico songwriter who’s won Grammys, sold-out stadiums, and earned a powerful platform, success hard-earned thanks to an approach and style similar to Prine’s: one that glides from blistering guitar-riffs to heartbreaking ballads, from humor to subversion, revealed by unshakeable commitment to craft yet made all the more powerful by intentional vulnerability inspired by the ego-shattering view from the cliff of the abyss.