It's been said that the golden rule of songwriting is "Write what you know." Jake Landry, 35-year-old House of Blues artist-in-residence, has played music his whole life. Originally from Abbeville, he was exposed to classic American music by his parents. "We listened to Elvis, the Meters, Ray Charles, the Temptations, the Four Tops, Marty Robbins, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Wayne Toups, just to name a few," he recalls. "In college I found the funk, in rela...