“I cherish my privacy,” stated Zachary Richard at one point during an interview in the living room of the Lafayette area “Cajun-deco” cottage he shares with Claude Thomas, the Frenchwoman who is his manager and longtime companion. And then he proceeded to cast serious doubt on that assertion, growing increasingly candid over the course of [...]
“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 [...]
