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) album four out of five stars, noting Frankee's "straight-up language and bad-ass girl power" and commending the album's division into three segments as "an emotional human rollercoaster." Upon its release, "The Good, the Bad, the Ugly" achieved modest success in the United Kingdom. It debuted at its number 51 peak on the UK Albums Chart dated 21 June 2004. The following week, it fell to number 74, before falling off of the chart entirely. It remains Frankee's only top 100 entry on the UK albums chart. The Good, the Bad, the Ugly (Frankee album) The Good, the Bad, the Ugly