“I have careened through this life like a twelve-pound cannonball thrown from a privateer's frigate toward the galleon fleet off Southwest Pass." So writes Ralph Zachary Richard, 42, in the liner notes to Snake Bite Love, his twelfth and latest album, released last fall. When we pulled up to his home near Scott, Louisiana one cool afternoon in February, one of Acadiana's most outspoken figures was calmly waxing his '66 Cadillac El Dorado. In a few days he would embark on a major U....