This story was updated on Wednesday, April 23 at 9:17 a.m.
“I am going to sing through it,” John Driskell Hopkins recently told CBS News.
Hopkins, the longtime bassist, guitarist, vocalist and co-writer of the multiple Grammy-winning Zac Brown Band, announced in 2022 to fans that he was diagnosed with the terminal degenerative illness ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
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