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
Womyn's land Womyn's land Womyn's land (also called lesbian land, wimmin's land, landdyke communities, or women's land) is a term which refers to intentional communities organized by women to empower women. These communities mainly exist in rural areas where land is utilized to establish counter-cultural, women-centered space, often without the presence of males. The first known women's land community in the US was the Sanctificationists, later known as the Woman's Commonwealth, which was established in Texas in the late 1870s to 1880s. In the 1970s, women's land-based communities that explicitly welcomed lesbians were established in the US, Australia, New Zealand, and western