Michael Martin Murphey closed out a successful decade of recording with the album "Land of Enchantment", which contained "Never Givin' Up on Love", "Got to Pay the Fiddler", "Route 66", and "Land of Enchantment", which became New Mexico's state ballad. Despite the impressive critical and commercial success he achieved throughout the 1980s, Michael Martin Murphey's creative heart and spirit began to focus on the Western music that first captured his imagination as a boy growing up in Texas. As early as 1985, Murphey performed with the New Mexico Symphony in a show called "A Night in the American West", which led to many
The Land Is Bright of the last fifty years." The play was published once, in 1941, and is out print since, being available only in manuscript form and has been rarely staged since its Broadway run. The Palmetto Players of Converse College mounted a production in 1942. The Land Is Bright The Land Is Bright is a 1941 dramatic play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. The play, which opened as World War II raged and shortly before American entry into that war, is an epic with patriotic themes. It covers three generations of the fictional Kincaid family, robber barons who made their