Tempted (Marty Stuart album)
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| Tempted | ||||
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| Released | January 22, 1991[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1990 | |||
| Studio | Sound Stage Studios, Nashville, TN | |||
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| Length | 30:01 | |||
| Label | MCA Nashville | |||
| Producer | Richard Bennett Tony Brown | |||
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| Singles from Tempted | ||||
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| AllMusic |   [2] |
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.[3][4][5][6] "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'."
Tempted has been described as a honky-tonk and country rock album.[2][7]
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 |
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| 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, Don Sessions | 2:56 |
| 10. | "Get Back to the Country" | Neil Young | 2:55 |
| Total length: | 30:01 | ||
