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
Enchantment (band) had folded as a label and Enchantment signed with RCA Records, where they recorded their fourth album, "Soft Lights, Sweet Music", with top R&B producer, Don Davis. Both singles released charted at #47 in the 1981 charts. In 1982, they signed with Columbia Records and released two more albums; "Enchanted Lady" (1982) and "Utopia" (1984). By the end of the 1980s, the rise of funk and rap put a virtual end to ballad groups. All three albums barely dented the charts. Today, Enchantment still performs for fans. They appeared in the Boston portion of the concert recorded at the Orpheus