Cherry Casino and the Gamblers

The Band was put together in spring 2001 as a backing band for american singer/50?s recording artist Rayburn Anthony. Axel Praefcke and Ike Stoye soon found the right guys to make this project happen. With Michael "Humpty" Kirscht on second lead-guitar, "Lucky" Lehmann on stand-up bass and Torsten "Bam-Boom" Peukert on drums they would try to get it goin. Just a few days before the tour the whole thing was cancelled and there stood a well-rehearsed band with nothing to do...

We didn?t wanna leave it this way after all the practicing and the countless hours of rehearsing" sez Ike "and somehow everything we played sounded kinda good!" Good ol? Rayburn wasn?t there so we changed our set and did some new material instead.We tried that early R&B thing and BANG! there we were!

The band playes classic 1950?s Rhythm and Blues and Rock and Roll with catchy lyrics and hard driving guitar/sax lead breaks and is trying to come as close as possible to the magicsounds of the era. Cherry loves T-Bone Walker,Wynonie Harris,Joe Turner and all kinds of mirrors.