Jeremy Porter & The Tucos Christmas song he had written for the annual Suburban Sprawl Music Christmas Compilation. Jeremy recruited drummer and multi-instrumentalist Gabriel Doman (The Hotwalls) and bassist Jason Bowes (The OffRamps, Fidrych, Culture Bandits) to round out the trio for the recording session. The lineup would remain intact for four years. The band's name is based on the character Tuco Ramirez, played by actor Eli Wallach in "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" and was an alternative to a suggestion by original bassist Jason Bowes, who proposed The Mortimers, after the Lee Van Cleef character when the band found that a punk
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly (Frankee album) released "Watch Me" as her follow-up single. "The Good, the Bad, the Ugly", like Eamon's "I Don't Want You Back", drew negative reviews from music critics. Christian Hoard, writing for "Rolling Stone" magazine, awarded the album two out of five stars, deeming the songs "annoyingly silly and brightly sassy" and commenting that the beats are similar to those of teen pop. Hoard also called Frankee's "diva-in-training." AllMusic noted "I Do Me" and "F.U.R.B." as "track picks." "Vibe" singled out "Him" and "F.U.R.B." and opined that Frankee "sings with both sassiness... and saltiness." "RTE", Ireland's National Public Service Broadcaster, awarded the