James Burton Foundation<\/a> to support music education for those in need through guitar donations and music instruction to schools, hospitals, and community service organizations.<\/p>\nHe maintains his ties to Northwest Louisiana and splits his time between Shreveport and Nashville. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL\/KMSS) \u2013 Iconic guitarist and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer\u00a0James Burton says he has been diagnosed with kidney cancer. According to a post on Facebook Friday evening, the 83-year-old Northwest Louisiana native is scheduled for an operation Monday in Nashville. James Burton calls Elvis biopic \u201cFantastic\u201d “Even though I have a great […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Burton.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6769,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions\/6769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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