| Friday Night in America | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | New Grass Revival |
| Cover: | File:Friday Night in America album cover.jpg |
| Released: | 1989 |
| Genre: | Bluegrass, country |
| Length: | 40:54 |
| Label: | Capitol |
| Producer: | Wendy Waldman[1] |
| Prev Title: | Hold to a Dream |
| Prev Year: | 1987 |
| Next Title: | Best of New Grass Revival |
| Next Year: | 1994 |
Friday Night in America is a studio album by progressive bluegrass band New Grass Revival, released in 1989.[2] The album includes the single "Callin' Baton Rouge", the band's only Top 40 hit on Hot Country Songs. Both it and "Do What You Gotta Do" were later released as singles by Garth Brooks: the former in 1993 from his album In Pieces, and the latter in 2000 from his album Sevens. The band promoted the album by touring with Emmylou Harris.[3]
Newsday deemed the band "one of the more exuberant and professional amalgams of country and bluegrass talent."[4] USA Today called the album "the best yet from the best acoustic band around... Bluegrass never has been stretched so far toward jazz, folk, blues, Cajun, reggae and rock."[5] The Edmonton Journal wrote that the "superb instrumental skills are reduced to the odd flash of brilliance, as most of the material embraces standard Poco/Eagle country arrangements."[6]