Tempted (album)
# Tempted (album)

Professional ratings :

| Review scores ||
| - | - |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |

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."

## Personnel

As listed in liner notes.

* 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

## Charts

### Singles

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

## Sources

* ↑ AOL Music Profile for "Tempted"
* 1 2 Pendragon, Jana. Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
* 1 2 "Hot Country Songs". Billboard. March 1, 1991. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
* 1 2 "Hot Country Songs". Billboard. July 19, 1991. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
* 1 2 "Hot Country Songs". Billboard. November 1, 1991. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
* 1 2 "Hot Country Songs". Billboard. May 1, 1992. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
* ↑ Tempted (CD inssert). Marty Stuart. MCA Records. 1991. MCAD-10106.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
* ↑ "Marty Stuart Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
* ↑ "Marty Stuart Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
* ↑ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1991". Billboard. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved June 5, 2021.
