I'll admit, I got caught sleeping myself on this one. If there's something I want to draw attention to more than good music, it's good music done locally. I didn't know a dang thang about this dude until last week when he was invited onstage at the Foreign Exchange show in Akron to rip into the Rude Boys' classic, "Written All Over Your Face". Now that I see just how much evidence of his skills he's already shared online, I'm a bit embarrassed to have not caught on sooner.

Nevertheless, for anyone else that wasn't aware, this is Cleveland's own Durand Bernarr.

The clip above is a clip Durand recently uploaded of him jamming onstage at a local Cleveland lounge. I'm willing to bet you're going to want to hear more when it's over, so here's where you can connect more with Durand:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/alcoholharmony
Twitter: http://twitter.com/alcoholharmony

BTW, you can find a clip of what I first saw in Akron this past week at the FE show on his YouTube page.

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