Gainesville musician Devon Vlasin, 30, knows how to make it big in the music industry. You have to move to a big city, play a lot of shows you don’t want to play and sing some covers. Instead, Vlasin is the kitchen manager at Cafe Gardens who one night will play in front of 20 people and another night can play in front of 300, and he wouldn’t want any other way.

Vlasin only works to be able to play his music. His country rock songs reflect his environment of working doubles at restaurants and driving with US 441 in the rear-view. His only goal is to share his environment with the world, and doing it on his terms.

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