It’s been more than a decade since the CBC Radio regular and lead singer of The Smugglers first introduced the cast of unforgettable misfits he met growing up at his family’s cabin on Desolation Sound, along the Sunshine Coast. And while his debut memoir also shared the story of Lawrence’s own upbringing alongside his Desolation Sound neighbours, this time around he takes more of a backseat. “So I had to basically wait for the Desolation Sound stories to pile up.”And pile up they did. Without giving too much away, Bernard had a major health scare that convinced him “he had more of the world to see” than Desolation Sound. “He was a larger-than-life guy so in a way his death was the only way Bernard could have gone out,” Lawrence recalls.

Source: CBC News June 03, 2022 14:33 UTC