Tempted (album)
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'."
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | January 22, 1991[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1990 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 30:01 | |||
| Label | MCA Nashville | |||
| Producer | Richard Bennett Tony Brown | |||
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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
- AOL Music Profile for "Tempted"
- Pendragon, Jana. "Tempted review". Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
- Tempted (CD inssert). Marty Stuart. MCA Records. 1991. MCAD-10106.CS1 maint: others (link)