Beautiful Loser by Bob Seger

Beautiful Loser, Bob Seger's eighth studio album, came out in 1975 and brought the Detroit rocker back to Capitol Records after four years away; his last record for the label had been Brand New Morning in 1971. He cut it largely with the session aces of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, and the Alabama crew gives his raspy, working-man rock a lean, soulful snap.

His own Silver Bullet Band turns up on a few tracks and plays together as a unit on a cover of Ike & Tina Turner's "Nutbush City Limits". "Katmandu" is the barnburner, a rollicking romp that still gets the countdowns moving. A year later came Live Bullet and Night Moves, and the national breakthrough Seger had been chasing since the '60s.

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