Tom Culver
Sings Johnny Mercer
Rhombus Records
www.rhombus-records.com
By George W. Harris

Here’s an old school-styled singer that you’re gonna like. Tom Culver picks some beauts from the Johnny Mercer Songbook, but polishes them up with some special orange cleaning fluid to give them each some extra luster. He’ll wake you up with a bossa nova’d “I Remember You” as well as a wonderfully sensuous samba’d “Fools Rush In.” His voice is been-around-the-block world wise, and he uses it to perfection on the obscure “Drinkin’ Again” and “Love In A Home.” He brings you up with “On The Atchinson…” and lets you down easy on “One For My Baby.” Tuxedo classy with shiny shoes.