| Tempted | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Marty Stuart |
| Cover: | Marty Stuart - Tempted.jpg |
| Released: | January 22, 1991[1] |
| Recorded: | 1990 |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 30:01 |
| Label: | MCA Nashville |
| Producer: | Richard Bennett Tony Brown |
| Chronology: | Marty Stuart |
| Prev Title: | Hillbilly Rock |
| Prev Year: | 1989 |
| Next Title: | This One's Gonna Hurt You |
| Next Year: | 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'."
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.
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."
As listed in liner notes.[2]
| Year | Single | Peak positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | CAN Country | |||
| 1991 | "Little Things"[4] | 8 | 3 | |
| "'Til I Found You"[5] | 12 | 11 | ||
| "Tempted"[6] | 5 | 4 | ||
| 1992 | "Burn Me Down"[7] | 7 | 12 | |