If you find yourself listening to Civil Dusk, the new album by former Powderfinger frontman Bernard Fanning, and are ruminating over its tales of heartbreak, opportunities missed, bad decisions and unforseen consequences, you might, not unreasonably, assume that something had gone terribly wrong in his personal life.
That would be a mistake.
“I understand that interpretation - I totally get that, and it makes sense, and I think that’s the impression that people will probably have,” he begins, “but I have to contextualise it a little bit by talking about a record that I listened to a lot before I made this, and while I was writing it: Late For The Sky by Jackson Browne.”
A lot of writers deliberately avoid listening to music when they’re writing, but that’s clearly…
