Texas hit-maker doesn't let MS slow him down, releases new album
More than a decade after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, country singer Clay Walker's voice sounds stronger than ever on his first new studio album in four years."Fall," filled with twangy honky tonk songs and ballads that test his range, is set to be released next month.
Walker worked with singer-songwriter/producer Keith Stegall on "Fall," his eighth studio album and his first on Curb Records.
The 37-year-old Walker was diagnosed with MS in 1996 and takes a daily injection of Copaxone to keep the disease in check. MS occurs when patients' immune systems go awry and attack the fatty layer of insulation, called myelin, that protects nerve fibers in the brain and spine, thus damaging or even destroying nerves.
In 2002, Walker started the nonprofit Band Against MS Foundation to raise money for research.
Last week, he presented a check for 100-thousand dollars on behalf of the foundation to the interim dean of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston during a performance at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.