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
Land of the Rising Sun (anthem) Land of the Rising Sun (anthem) "Land of the Rising Sun" was the proclaimed national anthem of the secessionist African state of Biafra, in south-eastern Nigeria. The tune was adopted from Sibelius' "Finlandia", and written by Nnamdi Azikiwe. Land of the rising sun, we love and cherish,<br> Beloved homeland of our brave heroes;<br> We must defend our lives or we shall perish,<br> We shall protect our lives from all our foes;<br> But if the price is death for all we hold dear,<br> Then let us die without a shred of fear.<br> Hail to Biafra, consecrated nation,<br> O fatherland, this be