Tempted (Marty Stuart 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'."

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