Sommer Saadi, Staff Writer, ssaadi@smu.edu Kevin Devine doesn't care anymore. He isn't annoyed because the radio doesn't play his songs. He isn't thinking about his name being plastered in the press, and he certainly isn't still angry with Capitol Records for dropping him four months after signing him. To hell with it all. Devine is too busy making music to care if anyone is listening. "All I'm responsible for is making things," Devine says. "Everything else is up to everyone else." It is a humbling and liberating revelation. On the one hand, Devine has to man his own merchandise table at shows and flatter his fans while sheepishly promising his compliments are not ploys to sell T-shirts. He also has to introduce himself to the stage even after he's already spent five minutes tuning his guitar in front of the audience. On the...
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