{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album| | name = Beautiful Loser | type = studio | artist = Bob Seger | cover = Bob Seger - Beautiful Loser.jpg | alt = | released = April 1975 | recorded = | venue = | studio = Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, Alabama | genre = Rock | length = 33:01 | label = Capitol | producer = Bob Seger, Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, Punch Andrews | prev_title = Seven | prev_year = 1974 | next_title = Live Bullet | next_year = 1976 }}

{{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}} <ref>{{AllMusic |class=album |id=r17692 |tab=review |label=Bob Seger: ''Beautiful Loser'' > Review |first=Stephen Thomas |last=Erlewine |accessdate=4 July 2011 }}</ref> |rev2 = ''Christgau's Record Guide'' |rev2Score = B−<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: S|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=S&bk=70|accessdate=March 12, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref> }}

'''''Beautiful Loser''''' is the eighth studio album by American rock artist Bob Seger, released in 1975. This album marked Seger's return to Capitol Records 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== {{track listing | all_writing = Bob Seger, except "Nutbush City Limits", written by Tina Turner | headline = Side One | | title1 = Beautiful Loser | length1 = 3:29 | title2 = Black Night | length2 = 3:24 | title3 = Katmandu | length3 = 6:09 | title4 = Jody Girl | length4 = 3:41 }}

{{track listing | headline = Side Two | | title1 = Travelin' Man | length1 = 2:41 | title2 = Momma | length2 = 3:22 | title3 = Nutbush City Limits | length3 = 3:57 | title4 = Sailing Nights | length4 = 3:18 | title5 = Fine Memory | length5 = 2:56 }}

'''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.

* Bob Seger - lead vocals (all tracks), guitar (tracks 4, 5, 9), slide guitar (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 - bass guitar * Jimmy Johnson - rhythm guitar * Spooner Oldham - organ, electric piano

'''Muscle Shoals Horn Section''' (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 (track 4) * Stoney & Rocky - background vocals (track 3)

'''Production''' * Punch Andrews - 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) {| class="wikitable" !align="left"|Year !align="left"|Chart !align="left"|Position |- |align="left"|1975 |align="left"|Pop Albums |align="left"|131 |- |}

'''Singles''' - ''Billboard'' (United States) {| class="wikitable" !align="left"|Year !align="left"|Single !align="left"|Chart !align="left"|Position |- |align="left"|1975 |align="left"|"Katmandu" |align="left"|Billboard Hot 100 |align="left"|43 |- |align="left"|1975 |align="left"|"Beautiful Loser" |align="left"|Billboard Hot 100 |align="left"|103 |- |align="left"|1976 |align="left"|"Nutbush City Limits" |align="left"|Billboard Hot 100 |align="left"|69 |- |}

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Category:Bob Seger albums Category:1975 albums Category:Albums produced by Barry Beckett Category:Albums recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio Category:Capitol Records albums