Tempted (album)

Tempted
Studio album by Marty Stuart
Released	January 22, 1991[1]
Genre	Country
Length	30:01
Label	MCA Nashville
Producer	Richard Bennett Tony Brown
Marty Stuart chronology
Hillbilly Rock (1989) Tempted (1991) This One's Gonna Hurt You (1992)

Tempted is the fifth studio album by American country music artist, Marty Stuart. It was released in January 1991 by MCA Nashville. It peaked at #20 on the Top Country Albums chart. It was certified Gold in the United States and Canada. The songs, "Little Things", "'Til I Found You", "Tempted" and "Burn Me Down" were released as singles and all of them reached the top 20 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. "Tempted" at #5 is the highest charting solo single of his career in the United States, although he would reach #2 in 1992 as a duet partner on Travis Tritt's "The Whiskey Ain't Workin'."

Content

Several songs on this album are covers. "I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome" was co-written by Bill Monroe and Hank Williams and was featured on Monroe's 1966 album, High Lonesome Sound of Bill Monroe. In addition, "Get Back to the Country" was released as a single in 1985 by Neil Young from his album Old Ways.

Critical reception

Jana Pendragon of Allmusic gave the album four-and-a-half stars out of five, comparing it to Dwight Yoakam's Hillbilly Deluxe in style and saying, "Stuart kicks country-pop in its well-defined hindquarters[…]But Stuart is just as deadly when he slows things down and does a ballad."^[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome"	Bill Monroe, Hank Williams	3:21
2.	"Paint the Town Tonight"	Marty Stuart	2:01
3.	"Till I Found You"	Hank DeVito, Paul Kennerley	2:24
4.	"Tempted"	Stuart, Kennerley	3:16
5.	"Blue Train"	Johnny Cash, Billy Smith	3:08
6.	"Little Things"	Stuart, Kennerley	3:10
7.	"Half a Heart"	Stuart, Kostas	2:34
8.	"I Want a Woman"	Stuart, Kostas	4:16
9.	"Burn Me Down"	Eddie Miller	2:56
10.	"Get Back to the Country"	Neil Young	2:55

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.^[3]

• Sam Bacco - percussion, timpani
• Amanda Bennett - tambourine, hand claps
• Richard Bennett - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, 6 string bass, mandolin-guitarophone
• Bill Cuomo - Hammond organ
• Stuart Duncan - fiddle
• Dave Durocher - drums on tracks 2, 5, 7
• Ray Flacke - electric guitar on tracks 2, 5, 7
• Paul Franklin - steel guitar
• Ray Herndon - background vocals
• John Barlow Jarvis - keyboards
• Paul Kennerley - background vocals
• Kostas - background vocals
• Larry Marrs - bass guitar on tracks 2, 5, 7, background vocals
• Alan O'Bryant - background vocals
• Mark O'Connor - fiddle
• Les & Janice Reynolds – hand claps
• Harry Stinson - drums
• Marty Stuart - lead vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin
• Billy Thomas - background vocals
• Glenn Worf - bass guitar

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1991)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	20
U.S. Billboard 200	193

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions
		US Country	CAN Country
1991	"Little Things"	8	3
	"'Til I Found You"	12	11
	"Tempted"	5	4
1992	"Burn Me Down"	7	12

Sources

1. AOL Music Profile for "Tempted"
2. Pendragon, Jana. "Tempted review". Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
3. Tempted (CD inssert). Marty Stuart. MCA Records. 1991. MCAD-10106.