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Memphis is all the proof you need that a great singer can always come back from whatever commercial indiscretions he’s made in the past and break every heart in the club. Scaggs recorded it in three days at the legendary Royal Studios in Memphis, where the late Willie Mitchell once produced Al Green to perfection. With producer Steve Jordan keeping things organic, dry and real by making sure that the Hammond B3 was working (for Spooner Oldham) and that The Memphis Horns were speaking to one another, Boz Scaggs walked in and nailed the late Willy DeVille’s “Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl” with cool precision, gave Tyrone Davis’ “Can I Change My Mind” a second look worth hearing and served up the folk standard “Corrina, Corrina” with restraint.