FOR Rick Stephens, a life without music would be a life without emotion, something more and more relevant in today's modern world where a lot of us don't like to say what we feel.

Instead, we go to music to help us through what we don't understand because music does.

Stephens was born in 1951 and spent his formative life at Red Cliffs, where he grew up on a fruit block.

The son of Stanley and G...