Perhaps even some that no one has heard before. 

With multiple APRA and ARIA awards to his name and a solo career spanning into its second decade, the former Powderfinger frontman will visit Marion Bay for the first time later this month to give Tasmania its first live taste of Civil Dusk, Fanning’s third solo album released in August this year.

He’s also hinted at the possibility of debuting songs from Brutal Dawn, a follow-up album being recorded in December.

“We'll finish that off around Christmas and then that comes in April or something like that,” Fanning said. 

“Probably when we get to Marion Bay we'll have recorded the new record so we may even debut a couple of brand new songs that haven't been released yet.”

If 2013’s Departures signified a literal departure from the sound and songwriting techniques employed on Fanning’s multi-award-winning debut Tea and Sympathy, Civil Dusk and Brutal Dawn serve as the return.

With acoustic instruments and a country-folk flavour again brought to the fore, Fanning says the companion albums mark a return to his old approach.

“The way that I wrote (Departures) was completely different to the way that I'd done stuff before, so I was writing with basslines and using a computer to put songs together.

“This time when I went to make Civil Dusk I returned to the way that I'd always written songs which is just sitting down with a guitar or sitting at a piano and playing.”

For Tasmanian Powderfinger fans harbouring an urge to engage in a Falls Festival singalong to My Happiness or Sunsets – good news. 

“The way I've been doing it is I've been playing songs that Powderfinger recorded that I wrote and I play them the way that I first played them when I took them into the band room.

“It's a bit of an insight into that I guess, just the simplest versions of those songs.

“The whole reason I was able to make a record is because of Powderfinger and people love those songs, and I think at festivals especially it’s good to have people singing along.”