Music

Neal Lucas chipped his tooth “bushwhacking” on his dad’s land, but it doesn’t stop him from smiling. From Talbot County, Ga., the singer-songwriter appeals as much to the “long-haired hippy people” as the “good ol’ boys,” with original tunes like “I Don’t Want No Other Love.” He writes, produces and records his own music, and has played with too many bands to mention. He juggles these roles by setting aside time each day to write while maintaining a cool demeanor and salt-of-the-earth integrity. Like…

“I don’t sound like I look—people say that to me all the time,” Emily Stilwell explains when asked how such a big-volume, bluesy vocal delivery can arrive from such a diminutive stature.    Talking over a noon-hour coffee and pastry last month at Fountain City Coffee, the 26-year-old singer-songwriter discusses both her musical inspirations and inhibitors in an unassuming, full-disclosure fashion—a refreshing blend of humility, honesty and artistic purity—shortly before her shift at Whitewater Express…

Like most Georgia-grown musical geniuses, Lloyd Buchanan’s roots run deep in the church. Raised in a house where secular music was forbidden by strict motherly decree, his first exposure came from watching his grandfather, Ernest Childs, Sr., wow crowds as part of gospel vocal quartets. “I grew up with a bunch of guys in a gospel quartet that was a younger version of what my grandad was doing,” Buchanan explains over coffee. “We would spend…

 by Frank Etheridge Four men wait in the dark of a January night outside the locked back door of iHeartMedia’s offices on 13th Avenue. Smoking and standing next to the towering metal-frame broadcast antennas—their radio reach maximized from this placement atop the western edge of a hilltop neighborhood once called Boogerville—they’re from Atlanta and here to see DJ Cashflow. About 45 minutes before the start of his “Cashflow Radio” program on Beat 98.3FM—on the air…

Faculty Recital: Natalie Higgins, horn Feb. 4, 4 p.m. Legacy Hall, RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, 900 Broadway, Columbus Guest Artist: Emily Brebach, english horn Feb. 4, 7:30 p.m. Free. Legacy Hall, RiverCenter for the Performing Arts. 900 Broadway, Columbus Guest Artist: Brian Meixner, euphonium Feb. 6. 6:30 p.m. Free. Legacy Hall, RiverCenter for the Performing Arts. 900 Broadway, Columbus Bobaflex returns to Soho Bar & Grill Feb. 8, 7:00 p.m. – midnight, Soho Bar & Grill, 5751…