Henry Chadwick is known as the “father of baseball” and inventor of the box score. Henry Chadwick is also a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer from Santa Cruz, California, whose self-produced debut EP, Guest At Home, will be released this spring.
Chadwick, who died in 1908, was not known to have played an instrument. Henry, however wrote, engineered and played most of the instruments on his new EP. While Henry actually lived in the past, Chadwick draws influences from music of the past (The Beatles, The Kinks, T-Rex, Nirvana, and David Bowie) as well as as from current artists.
His new single, “Alright,” is a catchy and wry indie-pop number with a laconic, Beckesque vocal and a shiny guitar hook. It seems to have nothing to do with baseball, but we like it lots.
