{"id":50030,"date":"2026-08-04T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=50030"},"modified":"2026-08-04T07:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:38:15","slug":"zac-brown-bands-john-driskell-hopkins-says-hes-chasing-the-clock-amid-his-als-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/08\/zac-brown-bands-john-driskell-hopkins-says-hes-chasing-the-clock-amid-his-als-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Zac Brown Band&#8217;s John Driskell Hopkins Says He&#8217;s &#8220;Chasing The Clock&#8221; Amid His ALS Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Zac Brown Band member John Driskell Hopkins was diagnosed with ALS at the end of 2021.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since then, he says he&#8217;s been &#8220;chasing the clock&#8221; to live as much life as he can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m almost busier now than I was before because I\u2019m trying to get so much done. I\u2019m tryin\u2019 to fit it all in. I\u2019m taking more family vacations. I\u2019m in the studio more than I should be. I\u2019m still on tour with Zac Brown Band right now. You know, my fingers work. My voice works. It\u2019s been compromised, but most of the set, no one would notice. And I\u2019m playing different things on stage, but they still make sense.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>But he&#8217;s worried that staying active is causing his body stress and exacerbating his condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I&#039;m still singing it, I&#039;m still bringing it: John Driskell Hopkins on performing with ALS diagnosis\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eI63APsASbM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zac Brown Band member John Driskell Hopkins was diagnosed with ALS at the end of 2021.&nbsp;&nbsp; Since then, he says he&#8217;s been &#8220;chasing the clock&#8221; to live as much life as he can. \u201cI\u2019m almost busier now than I was before because I\u2019m trying to get so much done. I\u2019m tryin\u2019 to fit it all","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":40764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3830,3829,521],"class_list":["post-50030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-als","tag-john-driskell-hopkins","tag-zac-brown-band"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 19:27:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/08\/zac-brown-bands-john-driskell-hopkins-says-hes-chasing-the-clock-amid-his-als-battle\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50031,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50030\/revisions\/50031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}