[3][4] To celebrate their twentieth anniversary in 2008, The Gufs played a series of four free concerts with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in June.

[5] The Gufs began as an eastside Milwaukee band in 1988,[6] with University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee students Goran Kralj and Scott Schwebel.

The band took their name from a place where a baby's soul comes from before the child is born, a phrase used in the Demi Moore film The Seventh Sign.

The Gufs' tour with Matchbox Twenty resulted in Rob Thomas singing backup on the song "Give Back Yourself" on their Holiday from You album.

[11] "Smile" was included on the compilation CDs Sounds of the Leisure Class Records: Midwest Collection,[16] and WIIL Rock 95.1 Live.