When it comes to Jeremy Porter and the Tucos every night is the night

 By Henry Lipput

If you’ve read more than a few of my reviews on this blog you’ll notice there’s not a lot of straight up rock and roll in the mix. What tends to attract my ears and pen and paper is melodic pop and more than a bit of jangle.

One of the exceptions is my review last year of Candy Coated Cannonball, the album by Jeremy Porter and the Tucos. In the review I wrote: “Jeremy Porter and the Tucos is one of the best rock and roll trios I’ve heard since Ben Folds Five released their debut album more than 20 years ago.”

And now they’re back with a new 7’ single that, as David Letterman was fond of saying, blows the roof off the dump. It’s available only from their website as a preorder from GTG Records and at shows. (You can find out about the dates for the band’s Fall tour here.)

“Tonight is Not the Night” b/w “DTW” is pressed on limited-edition red vinyl and comes with great cover art by Kentucky's Nick Walters, a hand-screened insert, and a download card. Recorded during the Candy Coated Cannonball sessions, “Tonight is Not the Night” is nowhere near a left-over but a worthy addition to the band’s greatest hits.

Speaking of greatest hits, if you like what you hear you need to check out Jeremy Porter and the Tucos 3-CD career retrospective Bottled Regrets: The First Ten Years on Bandcamp.