Ralph Zachary Richard, 42, writes in the liner notes to Snake Bite Love, his 12th and latest album, released last fall: “I have careened through this life like a 12-pound cannonball thrown from a privateer's frigate toward the galleon fleet off Southwest Pass." 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.S. tour in s...