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.

[3] Newsday deemed the band "one of the more exuberant and professional amalgams of country and bluegrass talent.

"[5] 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.

"[6] 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.