** January 4th - What a way to start 2012! 'Sweet Companion' is number one on the UKCountryradio listeners chart for December. A bit of 'Rock 'n Rawl' turned out to be a good thing...
** December 6th - Still hanging in there! 'Chevvy' at number 3 on the UKCountryradio chart for November
** December 2nd - 'Gasoline' entered the Wildhorse Entertainment top 30 for December at number 9
** November 20th - UKCountryradio.com to start playing 'Sweet Companion' on November 29th...
** November 14th - New single 'Sweet Companion' sent off into cyberspace for digital distribution. No particular set date for release so I just have to wait until it turns up in all the stores!
** November 13th - Interviewed live on US radio from Washington and going out on 14 channels. Hope someone was listening - it was only 8:30 in the morning over there...
** November 5th - Visit Wildhorse Entertainment at
Scroll down the page until you find 'Gasoline'
Right click on the picture and choose 'save target as' and you get a free download of the song...
** November 3rd - Wildhorse Entertainment in South Africa has sent 'Gasoline' to be played in Nashville and in Austria as well as home in South Africa. The song will be up for free download as from Saturday. All downloads contribute to getting into their top 30
** November 3rd - New UKCountryradio chart published and 'Chevvy In Your Driveway' enters at number 2. No-one seems to mind that there's one 'v' too many in 'Chevvy'...
** October 18th - Mail today from www.radiowaves.us to say they are playing "Gasoline". Just had to log in and listen! The DJ says "Did you ever wonder what country music from Sweden sounds like?" He takes a pause and comes back with "Me neither!" And then "Gasoline" gets a spin...
** October 4th - 'The Wild Side Of Life' still at number 2 on the UKCountryradio chart for September. But it won't be there next time around because I've asked them to start playing something else!
** September 6th - UKCountryRadio chart for August released and 'The Wild Side Of Life' is still up there at number 2...
** August 29th - RT is now a featured artist on Songwriter Radio with his own page and all tracks from 'The Golden Ring' on their regular play schedule...
** August 3rd - Just heard this afternoon that 'The Wild Side Of Life' has moved up to number 2 on the UKCountryRadio chart for July! So it's off to Greece with a big smile under that moustache....
** July 5th - UKCountryRadios chart for June came out today. 'The Wild Side Of Life' has entered at number 3! A great start to the summer holidays!...
** June 14th - Just found out today that 'The Golden Ring' is number 2 on the UKCountryRadio listeners chart for May. Feeling really 'chuffed' as one says...
** April 11th - Picture on the front page of UKCountryradio.com to advertise that they are starting to play 'The Golden Ring'.
Anyone listening out there...
** April 6th - The figures for the UKCountryradio.com chart for March came out today - 'Gasoline' has gone back up to first place again after resting for a month at number 3!
Praise the Lord He gave us Gasoline!
** March 30th - UKCountryradio.com have started selling the new album today...
** February 27th - 'The Golden Ring And Other Stories' now finished and working its way towards release. Planned release date is April 4th. This time there will also be 'real' Cds for sale through UK Country Radio as well as all the usual digital stuff. Première release for the newly established Artee Records!
** February 21st - Question number 3 in this weeks Gotland quiz on the local papers website is 'What is the name of the englishman living on Gotland who is number 1 on a British radio station with his song 'Gasoline'.
Now who can that be??
** February 19th - Interviewed by UKCountryradio. Three short interviews to be broadcast during the coming week...
** February 18th - Local newspaper 'Gotlands Allehanda' publish a short report about the number 1 spot on UKCountryRadio and also tell the readers about the video for 'The Country Boy In Me'...
** February 6th - Email from UkCountryRadio.com. 'Gasoline' is number 1 on the listeners chart for January! Now that sure was real good news y'all......
** January 27th 2011 - Putting the finishing touches to 'The Golden Ring' which will hopefully be the title track for the new album out this Spring. The song is set in World War 1.
** January 26th 2011 - UK Country Radio have been playing 'Gasoline' for several weeks now and the song has also qualified to enter for the stations listener's award competition for 2010. All votes gratefully received...
** November 30th 2010 - RT has had his own page in the 'artists' section of UK Country Radio for over a week now. They will start playing 'Gasoline' before Christmas. Check it out:
** November 17th 2010 - The video for 'The Country Boy In Me' lands on YouTube. Follow the link on the 'Sound and Vision' page!
** New single 'Gasoline'scheduled for release November 29th 2010. Available in the same stores as the other two releases. Coverpic on the 'Images' page...
** October 31st and November 7th 2010 - Filming a video for 'Country Boy' on exotic location on the Olsson farm in Sanda on Gotland!
A couple of photos from the first session on the 'Images' page...
** October 28th 2010 - 'Gasoline' finished and put on the shelf for a while. The song will be out and about in due course but the lyrics are to be found on the Lyrics page if anyone wants to start guessing.....
** September 9th 2010 - 'A Brand New Day' sees the light. There's a story in this one. Only for the inner circle to start with.....
** September 3rd 2010 - A two-page spread in the newspaper Gotlands Allehanda. If you can't get hold of the real thing check out the link here:
** August 29th 2010 - 'Evil (Is The Way Of The World)' fresh out of the RT song factory and available here for listening and/or download for a limited period. Not up on any other websites...
** July 26th 2010 - 'Found Love' added to the songlist before shutting down for the holidays. One to dance to - and also to make you smile if you listen to the words!
Find it here:
** June 20th 2010 - 'The Country Boy In Me' has been renovated with new bass and vocal and may now be heard here:
http://www.reverbnation.com/artist/song_details/4355632
** June 11th 2010 - The public put RT at third place in the 'Svensktoppen' competition but the jury put him last! Result - number 4 out of the 5 contestants. Nothing more to do than go and drown those sorrows.....
** June 7th 2010 - '21st Century Song' sees the light. This one goes straight onto The Pirate Bay for 'legal' download! A suitable CD cover can be found on the 'Images' page if anyone wants to put it on a disc! Song is also on Reverbnation and LastFm
** May 18th 2010 - 'The Country Boy In Me' makes it through to the Final of Radio Gotlands 'Svensktoppen Nästa'. All fingers crossed until June 11th. The song can be heard on the radio website. There's a link here at the top of the 'Sound and Vision' page....
** April 28th 2010 - And along comes the next one - 'Head Held High' replaces 'The Weatherman' as free download at the bottom of the 'Sound and Vision' page. 'Weatherman' comes out on release as a single on May 3rd.
** April 11th 2010 - A long time planning this but today sees the release of the video for 'Hymn' featuring Laban, the celebrated miller and baker from southern Gotland. Enjoy!!
** April 6th 2010 - New single 'The Weatherman' scheduled for release May 3rd on same outlets as listed below
** March 24th 2010 - 'Pop Til U DRop' is on digital release at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.fr, Amazon.de, Spotify, iTunes, Tesco.co.uk, Skivlagret.se and many other digital download stores in Europe and the USA......
** February 11th 2010 - The great event is now on the horizon - Rawley Taylor 'Pop Til U Drop' scheduled for digital release on March 22nd if all goes accordning to plan. 14 track album or individual tracks will be available from I-tunes, Spotify, Amazon, HMV and many other online music stores - even good old Tescos!
Last track on the album is 'The R.T. Shuffle' - song written and recorded in January and not up on any websites.
The highly original cover can be admired here on the 'images' page...
** December 19th - Last song for 2009 'Hymn' out on various websites and also available for listening or download here on the 'Sound and Vision' page
** December 11th - The Grand Debut on Radio Gotland - and they even took pictures!
http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/gotland/program/artikel.asp?ProgramID=2268&Artikel=3301473
** November 25th - testing 'Stay With Me' on this website. Listen or download at the bottom of the 'Sound and Vision' page. All comments appreciated. You won't find this one anywhere else......(Did I hear a 'Thank Goodness for that!' ??) - Update - now you can find it all over the place.....
** November 21st - 'Eleutra Chicken' gets a video. Link on the 'Sound and Vision'page. This productivity just has to stop.....
** November 12th - 'Waiting In The Wings' A new RT composition out on the usual places on the web. No video to this one just yet...
** November 4th - a new video out on various places on the net. "Steady At The Wheel" meets the Gotland Grand National Dirtbike contest.
** An appearance on Radio Gotlands 'Mari's Kafé' booked for December 11th. Rummage around for your ear-trumpets and tune in between 10 a.m. and 11:30.
** No Eurovision for R.T. this time around and no surprises there. All three entries are now on the usual plaes like Last FM, Myspace and ReverbNation. But the one that R.T.'s own panel of judges liked best is on the 'Sound and Vision' page here on the website. Check out 'Just One Kind Of Loneliness' at the bottom of that page.
** 'Eleutra Chicken' hatched out on September 26th and she Struttin' Her Stuff here on the website and hoping to flap her wings fast enough to get across to The Bahamas. Meanwhile you can hear what she's all about at the bottom of the 'Sound and Vision' page.
** September 19th - Finally a new video hits YouTube. After a month working on three songs to send in to the Swedish Eurovison Competition so that they arrive in time to be rejected an old idea was resurrected and the result can be seen on the 'Sound and Vision' page...... 'Then I Kissed Her'
** August 18th - Nope! Nothing new except for the actual website which first saw the light of day (?) on July 16th. A month in Greece has just come to an end and there are now a few more projects in the pipeline.......
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