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 Great Horses Land of the Great Horses "Land of the Great Horses" is a short story by R. A. Lafferty from Harlan Ellison's science fiction anthology "Dangerous Visions". The story takes a broad view of the earth after extraterrestrials (the Outer Visitors) return the native land of the Romany (the "Land of the Great Horses"), on which they had been experimenting. Roma everywhere leave their work to return to it. They then scoop up the city of Los Angeles, whose residents become the new wanderers, Angelenos. When asked what happened, they commonly reply, "They came and took our Dizz away from us."