 "Blind to Reason" eventually went gold in Australia.Hugh toured extensively in 1988 in the U.S. and overseas, at first opening for Dickey Betts, Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson, Sheena Easton and Phoebe Snow, before beginning several years of headlining his own tours.Hugh's second major label album "Road to Freedom" (MCA Records, 1992) was voted "one of the year's top-ten albums" by "Billboard Magazine" and received rave reviews.