Jewell and her close friends Red Sovine and Buck Owens would love this story from Larry L. Rose, a retired, award-winning journalist/publisher and highly regarded Texas Hill Country artist whose work has been shown in a number of exhibits, most recently in Santa Fe, N.M. Larry suspects the spirit of Country music may take care of fans in […]
(Editor’s Note: Tracy Pitcox, founder of the Heart of Texas Country Music Museum in Brady, Texas, and highly esteemed throughout the music industry, added a Jewell House collection of materials to the museum’s archives recently. Jewell now is part of the museum’s impressive array of Country music artifacts that memorialize many of her closest friends […]
Jan. 22, 1955: On Page 40, Billboard’s “Reviews of New C&W Records” likes George Morgan’s Columbia Records release, “So Lonesome,” written by Jewell and Red Sovine. “Pretty weeper is sung in sweet fashion by Morgan on this new release,” the review says. “He sells it well and it has a chance for a lot of […]
March 10, 1956: Cash Box’s Country Roundup carries an item about Jewell’s new country music column for the weekly Two States Press in Texarkana: “Writing a very interesting column for the ‘Two States Press’ of Texarkana, Texas, is Jewell House, well-known songwriter in country music. Miss (sic) House recently inaugurated a new column featuring stories […]
Friends, today we remember Jewell’s husband, Charles “Charlie” House, on what would have been his 98th birthday. Jewell had no better or more important partner or friend in her songwriting career than Charles. Red Sovine and Shot Jackson loved him as did Webb Pierce, the Wilburn Brothers and other artists. Charles was Jewell’s driver on […]
Aloha, friends. Did you know there’s a rich and longtime relationship between Country and Hawaiian music? Ever wondered how steel guitars gained such iconic stature in Country music? We were vaguely aware of such roots when we recently visited Hawaii, but we looked more into it all after hearing and admiring local bands’ excellent work […]
Jewell’s songwriting focused mostly on relationships, so this is important to know about her: Jewell loved and was deeply devoted to her three brothers, four sisters and their families, but she and her baby sister, Zona Hancock, were exceptionally close throughout their lives. Brunette, brown-eyed Jewell was next-to-youngest, red-haired Zona with brown eyes was five […]
