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 Uses of Enchantment his introduction, Bettelheim stated that he was writing the book as “an educator and therapist of severely disturbed children.” However, after his death his credentials in those fields were found to be faked, and Bettelheim had only taken three introductory classes in psychology. In the U.S., Bettelheim and "The Uses of Enchantment" won the 1976 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the 1977 National Book Award in category Contemporary Thought. Robert A. Segal writes, ""It is the disjunction between Bettelheim's up-to-date approach to fairy tales and his old-fashioned approach to myths that is striking." "The Uses of Enchantment"