Dick Campbell

The Chicago singer and songwriter Dick Campbell issued the album Dick Campbell Sings Where It's At, widely regarded as one of the most over-the-top Bob Dylan knockoffs ever pressed to vinyl. The record appeared at the height of Dylan's mid-1960s renown, right after his shift to electric performance and his first chart singles. To achieve a close sonic match, Campbell recruited several musicians who had backed Dylan in 1965, notably the entire Paul Butterfield Blues Band except for Elvin Bishop, plus further contributors that included Peter Cetera, later of Chicago. Although the LP echoed the instrumental textures of Dylan's early rock outings through its picked guitar lines and prominent organ, the results proved markedly weaker. Campbell bore the fault, his material and singing registering as an unskilled Dylan facsimile so blatant that listeners cannot easily tell whether the effort was meant as earnest homage or outright spoof. Even so, the scarce LP retains value as a curiosity from the first years of folk-rock.