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Contributor Clay Culp discovers the real Memphis at Wild Bill’s, a juke joint where music, history, and hospitality collide.

It’s hard for me to talk about Wild Bill’s without talking about Memphis itself. I can’t pinpoint exactly when this nearly life-long Knoxvillian became a self-professed “born again Memphian,” but my first time at Wild Bill’s just might have been the baptism. 

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Originally hailing from South Memphis, raised in a musical family, Lukah was “born with music in the bloodline, in the bloodstream.” He can trace his love for music even back to when he was just an 8 year old boy singing to Michael Jackson and Prince.