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
MS Enchantment of the Seas overall renovation, which included paintings by Paul Critchley for the Windjammer cafe. When the extension project was approved, an extension of "Enchantment of the Seas"s sister ship, "Grandeur of the Seas" was also planned, with tentative plans to extend other ships in the Vision class (and possibly throughout the fleet). However, while the "Enchantment of the Seas" project was successful it proved to be prohibitively expensive, and all future extension projects have been cancelled. Instead, the Voyager class was extended on paper, and the Freedom class was created, utilising the shipyard capacity previously booked for the Vision class extensions. On