by admin | Jun 21, 2026 | Ashley Cooke
Question: Tell me about baby blues..
Ashley Cooke: “Baby Blues is a flirty little song. It’s so fun. We wrote it on a writer’s retreat actually when we had been writing a ton of different songs that were a little heavier in topic and Baby Blues was our hangover song. We woke up the next morning, all pretty in rough shape from drinking and writing songs the night before and somebody spit out the line of put those Baby Blues away in a room. Writing a different song and next thing you know we all perked up and started writing the song and it was written so quickly and it just felt so good and felt so easy and fun and it’s something that when I play on stage whenever I hear or whenever I get to sing it just puts a smile on my face. It’s just fun and flirty and it reminds me of all the goodness of that honeymoon phase of love.”
by admin | Jun 2, 2026 | Ashley Cooke, Toolkits
by admin | May 17, 2026 | Ashley Cooke
Question: What is your favorite summer activity?
Ashley Cooke: I’m a big water girl. I love the ocean. I love the lake. I Love the pool, whatever it is. I love being near water. I like to wakeboard. I love to just lay out, read a book under the sun. Summer is my favorite season and I feel like the most me as soon as summer comes back around.
by admin | May 10, 2026 | Ashley Cooke
Question: How does it feel playing the Opry?
Ashley Cooke: “It’s so special to get to play at the Grand Ole Opry, stepping in the circle every time. I mean, it’s never not just so special and incredible and feels like you step into history every time you do it. And the crowd is always so attentive. There’s just nothing quite like the Opry.”
by admin | May 4, 2026 | Ashley Cooke
Question: Tell me how this new album is different than your first
Ashley Cooke: “Yeah, I think sonically it’s different. It has a lot of different flavors in it, which is fun because I didn’t want a record that sounded the same from top to bottom. So there’s definitely some different elements and different flavors and cool things about it that I got to experiment with. There’s a new producer on this record, Dan Huff produced it, and he’s a legend, an icon. He did a lot like Keith Urban and Rascal Flatts. He played guitar on Thriller. Like, he’s… Iconic and one of my great friends now, and he just, he crushed this record. So it was fun to get to work with a different producer. So it just kind of inherently, innately sounds different because of that. I just feel like it hits a little harder, you know? Like it just feels a little different and just a little more mature. And I think I just got really honest lyrically, which I didn’t not do on Shot in the Dark, but it just feel I really leaned into like the brutal honesty of every situation on this album.”
