Have Fun With God (LP)

Yes, this is a dub version of Bill Callahan's Dream River.

If the world needed any further proof that Bill Callahan has an almost pathological contrarian streak, he delivered it last year when he promoted his then-forthcoming album, Dream River, by releasing a dub version of one of its highlights, 'Javelin Unlanding'.

Aside from the perversity of promoting an album by way of music that would not appear on it, Callahan's choice to release 'Expanding Dub' as Dream River's lead single revealed the artist's heretofore unknown love for dub music.

As he explained in an interview with the Quietus last year, "Dub is a spiritual, abstract, visceral, mystical thing. Finite and infinite at the same time. Deeply rooted in the earth and in outer space. It was invented in Jamaica and no one else really messes with it as it is greatly abetted when the original song has a reggae rhythm, which my songs largely do not."

Despite the caveat that his songs are seemingly not suited to dub treatment, Callahan has produced not only a dub version of 'Javelin Unlanding' but also dub versions of each of the other seven songs that appear on Dream River, all of which have been collected on Have Fun With God.