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Musical heavyweights, yes. But what do these acts actually have in common? They've all been nominated for Grammys. Yep, Bowling For Soup, the drunk-rockers from Wichita Falls, Texas, scored a nomination in 2003 in the Best Performance Pop By a Duo or Group category for their power-pop Sing-a-long "Girl All the Bad Guys Want."

"It opened a lot of doors for us," admits BFS's frontman Jaret Reddick, who wore an unforgettable pale-blue tux to the event. "Now we're no longer known as the fat guys from Texas. Now we're the Grammy-nominated fat guys from Texas."

The Grammy's are just part of the continuing success story for the band with the unforgettable name. The group actually started out all the way back in 1994 in Wichita Falls, Texas, without any notions of succeeding. At the time, guitarist Chris Burney and bassist Erik Chandler were in a band that frequently played a local coffee shop (conveniently owned by Burney). Drummer Gary Wiseman was also in a group that frequented the......

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