Working in a variety of styles, Rainwater was equally skilled at western ballads, pop confessions and go-for-broke forays into rockabilly.
His vocal style was compatible with almost all types of country music: weepers, western ballads, pop standards and rockabilly.
On the Greek island of Chios, drenched in rain, with the ghost of Homer haunting around, how could a western ballad get in here?
Gitika means Ballads though it tends to be longer than western ballads.
The director's incisive style makes highly effective use of a western ballad by Dimitri Tiomkin - Thursday/Early Friday at 4:15 A.M. on TNT.
In between there are forgettable, pleasant musical numbers in the styles of jukebox western narrative ballads like "El Paso" and the impassioned cowboy movie themes of the 1950's.
Big Iron is a western ballad by Marty Robbins, released in 1960.
A performer from the age of three, he has sung everything from western ballads to barbershop music.
The Hanging Tree is a western ballad from the 1959 movie The Hanging Tree.
Also the film has in its soundtrack the western ballad "Hanging Tree".