Alive Again

TC Cassidy has been warmly welcomed back into the country music fold, and her aptly titled new single, Alive Again, celebrates overcoming demons and reaches into country disco feels.

The name Tania, or TC, Cassidy is sure to be familiar to those fans of Australian country music in the 1990s and, at the urging of friend and producer Angus Gill, she released an album last year.

Alive Again, released on July 28, shows listeners a more mainstream take on TC’s musical talents.

“We were talking about what to record next when Angus mentioned this song that he wrote with Alan Mackey, Tim James and Rivers Rutherford,” she said.
“The song was born in 1976, when Alan was working with Countdown. Alan started writing the song, but then shared the concept with Angus (decades later), and they co-wrote it with Tim James, who has written for Chris Stapleton and Rivers Rutherford who wrote When I Get Where I’m Going for Brad Paisley and Dolly Parton,” TC said.

In the three decades that TC was out of the music industry, she was raising two children and battling an eating disorder called bulimia.

“My eldest daughter, Shelby, my 15-year-old, saved my life because the day I found out I was pregnant, I knew I had to do something about the bulimia,” TC said.
“The song is all about battling demons, and I battled a demon and came out the other side. This was also during a toxic relationship and domestic violence and that’s where it struck a chord with me. If speaking out about this helps one person, it’s so worth it because I battled it so long: it affects your personality, mood swings, everything, and I don’t wish anyone to go down that spiral.”