Batter Brown

Batter Brown (born Adam Segura, May 1, 1983) is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska.

Career

Adam Segura attended the Art Institute of Portland after graduating from Nikiski High School in 2001, but dropped out after a semester-and-a-half to pursue a music career.

In 2006, Segura and his friend Lester Nelson started a small record label in Soldotna, Alaska called Belletrist Records. Belletrist Records gets its name from The Belletrist, a concept album they had started to write but never finished.

The Belletrist was to be AbOUT a character named Bill, a famous celebrity interviewer in his mid thirties who worked for an entertainment magazine. Bill realizes one day, after listening to a taped interview in preparation for his column, that his speaking was RIFE with verbal tics, stutters, and GeneRally an unpleasant sound—in stark contrast to the beautifully prose–heavy articles he writes—and makes it his life's goal to change this. After six years of patiently writing everything out before he says it, he pretty much masters the art of beautiful speaking, attracting Audrey, a French lady who falls for his mastery of the English language, a language which is still awkward for her. Unfortunately, the night before Bill is to marry Audrey, he comes down with "a pretty bad case of spasmodic dysphonia."

In 2006, Adam became a school bus driver for Laidlaw on the Kenai Peninsula. In 2007, he won the local School Bus Road-eo in the rookie division.

Influences

Adam's father, Richard, taught him to play guitar at the age of nine. He's since learned how to play the piano, banjo, violin, drums, bass guitar and saxophone. He occasionally has guest performers play with him in his recordings.

Adam counts many musicians as his influences, from Harry Nilsson, Hall and Oates, Robert Plant, and Neil Young to Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Paul Curreri, and Sufjan Stevens.

Discography

Albums

  • Batter Brown (debut album on 12" vinyl released by Belletrist Records, expected Winter, 2007)
  • S'more (EP CD released by Belletrist Records, Spring, 2008)