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.

They released the live-acoustic ep Live and Acoustic @ The Plymouth Coffee Bean[14] in August, featuring "unplugged" versions of five songs, including "Way It's Been" by David Picco and "My Uncle" by The Flying Burrito Brothers as well as three Porter originals.

[20] In November 2013 the band embarked on their longest tour to date, playing up and down the East Coast of the United States, hitting most of the major cities including Brooklyn, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Boston, Massachusetts, and Washington D.C.[21] 2014 saw the departure of original bassist Jason Bowes and the arrival of Patrick O'Harris (Mike Hard Show, Sons of the Gun).

[25] 2014 also saw the band increase their footprint in the Detroit area with high-profile support slots for bigger-name touring acts like Lydia Loveless,[26] Lee Bains III and The Glory Fires, Two Cow Garage,[27] Supersuckers, and Old Man Markley,[28] and the record release show for ex-Junk Monkey David Bierman.

The "Above (And Below) The Sweet Tea Line Tour" took them to several new markets, including Chapel Hill, Asheville and Charlotte, North Carolina, Athens, Georgia, Jacksonville, Florida, and Knoxville, Tennessee, among others, as well.

The Tucos toured the Northeast in October, hitting several new cities including Burlington, Vermont, Ithaca, New York, Providence, Rhode Island, and Charleston, West Virginia, as well as several others.

[37] JP & The Tucos spent the first four months of 2017 in pre-production for their third album, writing, demoing, and ultimately returning to The Loft Recording Studio in Saline, Michigan.

[39] They also contributed a version of Conventional Wisdom, originally by the band Built To Spill to a compilation benefiting the ACLU on the newly formed Fourth Line Records label.

[49] After their homecoming show at PJs Lager House in Detroit on December 1, coinciding with the release of their fifth 7" single, "At Least She's Still In Love With You," [50] The band announced that bassist Patrick O'Harris would be leaving before the end of the year.

[51] In 2019 Bob Moulton joined on bass guitar[52] and the band did a short run through Ohio and Indiana in January, then spent the rest of the winter working on material for a new album, playing the occasional local show.

They toured the west and deep south in October 2019 returning to Denver, Colorado, for the first time since 2014[53] and playing new markets including Omaha, Nebraska,[54] and Wichita, Kansas.

[59] Because of the COVID-19 pandemic The Tucos touring was limited to just a few shows, but they did open for Soul Asylum in Detroit in September and played the Pig & Whiskey festival in Ferndale in October.

Within a couple weeks The Tucos recruited old friend Jake Riley, who quickly lent his bass playing and harmonies a holiday song called “Eggnog Time Again.” [61] In 2022, JP & The Tucos played nearly 50 shows, their busiest year ever, hitting many new markets like Baltimore, MD, Roanoke, Va, Raleigh, NC, Tuscaloosa, AL, and Atlanta, GA while maintaining a steady presence in their usual upper-midwest haunts.

[63] The sets focused on material from Candy Coated Cannonball but included songs from deep within the catalog, and as the year went on several new tracks were introduced as the band works towards their fifth album.

Their tour took them to Arkansas, Bloomington, IL, Fort Worth, and San Antonio, Texas for the first time and back to some markets they’d been missing like Champaign, Illinois, Louisville, Kentucky, and Memphis, Tennessee.

[67] The Tucos cut basic tracks and vocals with engineer/studio-head Steve Presti at Black Sheep Audio in Novi, Michigan, who Jeremy had worked with in the 1990s with SlugBug.