''Beautiful Loser'' is the eighth studio album by

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rock artist

Bob Seger Robert Clark Seger ( ; born May 6, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and The Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s, break ...

, released in 1975. This album marked Seger's return to

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after a four-year split. His previous record with Capitol was '' Brand New Morning'' in 1971. The album relied mostly on session musicians from the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, but the Silver Bullet Band members were used separately on some songs and together on " Nutbush City Limits," a cover song of the hit by Ike & Tina Turner.

Track listing

Note *The liner notes credit "Nutbush City Limits" to the Silver Bullet Band, while the album as a whole is credited to only Bob Seger.

Personnel

Track numbering refers to CD and digital releases of the album. *

- lead vocals (all tracks), guitar (tracks 4, 5, 9),

slide guitar Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object (a slide) against the strings, creating the opportunity for glissando effects and deep vibratos tha ...

(track 3), harmonica (track 3), piano (track 4) Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (all tracks except tracks 4 and 7) * Barry Beckett - grand piano, organ, synthesizer, electric piano * Pete Carr - lead guitar, acoustic guitar * Roger Hawkins - drums, percussion *

David Hood David Hood (born September 21, 1943) is an American bassist from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. He also plays the trombone. He is a member of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame. Early life and education Hood was born in Sheffield, Alabama and attende ...

- bass guitar * Jimmy Johnson - rhythm guitar * Spooner Oldham - organ, electric piano

Muscle Shoals Horn Section Skeletal muscles (commonly referred to as muscles) are organs of the vertebrate muscular system and typically are attached by tendons to bones of a skeleton. The muscle cells of skeletal muscles are much longer than in the other types of muscl ...

(track 3) * Harrison Calloway - trumpet * Ron Eades - baritone saxophone * Charles Rose - trombone * Harvey Thompson - tenor saxophone Silver Bullet Band (track 7) * Drew Abbott - guitar * Chris Campbell - bass guitar * Charlie Martin - drums * Robyn Robbins - organ Additional musicians * Drew Abbott - guitar (tracks 2, 3) * Kenny Bell - guitar (track 3) * Pete Carr - guitar solo (track 6) * Tom Cartmell - saxophone (track 7) * Paul Kingery - guitar solo (track 7) * Robyn Robbins -

Mellotron The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963. It is played by pressing its keys, each of which pushes a length of magnetic tape against a capstan, which pulls it across a playback head. A ...

(track 4) * Stoney & Rocky - background vocals (track 3) Production *

Punch Andrews Edward "Punch" Andrews is a music producer who produced many albums of Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band. Andrews has also served as a manager for Seger as well as Kid Rock, and managed Grand Funk Railroad Grand Funk Railroad (often shorte ...

- production (tracks 4 and 7 only), mixing * Jim Bruzzesse - engineering * Jerry Masters - engineering * Steve Melton - engineering * Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section - production (all tracks except 4 and 7) * Bob Seger - production (all tracks), mixing * Greg Smith - engineering

Charts

Album - ''Billboard'' (United States) Singles - ''Billboard'' (United States)

References

{{Authority control Bob Seger albums 1975 albums Albums produced by Barry Beckett Albums recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio Capitol Records albums