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Ashley Cooke shared her reaction when she watched her original song, “next to you,” appear on Marshals.
Cooke performed on the Yellowstone spinoff series’ latest episode, which premiered on Sunday (March 8). The Florida-born breakout artist shared that she wrote the song “by myself at my old apartment kitchen counter,” the morning after she made her debut at the historic Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. “It reminded me of what’s really important in this career (the people around you) and honestly had no expectations of this song ever making it out of the 1st record ‘deep cut’ world,” she wrote in a caption on Instagram. “But then [Marshals] called. Just goes to show you never know where a song will take ya. So thankful.”
Cooke released “next to you” on her 24-track debut record, shot in the dark, in July 2023. She watched the Marshals episode premiere on Sunday from a hotel room in Fort Worth, Texas. She beamed, “this is crazy! …Did that just happen?”
Cooke is the latest country artist to appear in the newly-premiered series. Riley Green recently confirmed his acting debut on Marshals. The show also stars Luke Grimes, Logan Marshall-Green, Gil Birmingham, Brecken Merrill, Ash Santos, Arielle Kebbel and others.
Marshals premiered on Sunday, March 1. It airs on Sundays from 8 to 9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. The show will also be available live and on-demand on Paramount+ for premium subscribers, and on-demand for Paramount+ subscribers the day after the episode airs, according to CBS.
Green is part of the star-studded lineup of the 2026 iHeartCountry Festival, along with Luke Bryan, Kane Brown, Parker McCollum, Shaboozey, Dylan Scott, Russell Dickerson, Gretchen Wilson, Chase Matthew and Lauren Alaina. iHeartRadio's Bobby Bones is returning as the event’s host. The show will take place on May 2 at Moody Center in Austin, Texas. Tickets to the show are available as of January 23. Fans across the country will be able to catch all the action as the 2026 iHeartCountry Festival will be broadcast live across iHeartCountry stations nationwide and the free iHeartRadio app on Saturday, May 2nd at 8pm ET/5pm PT (7pm CT).