Timeline

1960s

1966

• Summer 1966: Mayo Thompson and Frederick Barthelme work together on a film project. They decide to abandon the unfinished film and form a band, The Red Crayola.
• September 1966: The Red Crayola adds Steve Cunningham (bass), Bonnie Emerson (guitar), and Danny Schacht (harmonica) to their line-up.
• September 1966: The group consolidates into the trio of Mayo Thompson (guitar, vocals), Frederick Barthelme (drums), Steve Cunningham (bass).
• Late 1966-1967: The Red Crayola play shows in and around Houston, Texas.

Shows/1966

1967

• February 1967: The band's first recording session results in unreleased single Dairymaid's Lament
• March 1967: Following a performance in the KNUZ Battle of the Bands, The Red Crayola signs to independent label International Artists
• March? 1967: Records demos for the band's first album
• April 1, 1967: "Free Form Freak-Out" recording session with The Familiar Ugly
• April-May 1967: Recording sessions for the band's first album
• June 1967: First album The Parable of Arable Land is released
• 1967: Sessions for unreleased album Coconut Hotel
• 1967: Les Blank photoshoot
• July 1967: Angry Arts & Berkeley Folk Festival performance - later released as Live 1967
• July 1967: Session for lost Album with John Fahey in California
• 1967: The band breaks up; Frederick Barthelme moves to New York
• Late 1967: The Parable of Arable Land is an unexpected success; International Artists asks for another album
• Late 1967: The band reforms with a new drummer: Mayo Thompson (guitar, vocals), Steve Cunningham (bass), Tommy Smith (drums)

Shows/1967

1968

• February? 1968: Sessions for the band's second commercially released album
• May 1968: Second album God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It is released
• 1968: The band breaks up

1969

• 1969: Thompson and Cunningham visit New York to consider working on [[File:|20x20px|link=|]] [[|]]
• 1969: Mayo Thompson illustrates Frederick Barthelme's first book, Rangoon

1970s

1970

• February 1970: Recording begins for Mayo Thompson's first solo album
• 1970: Corky's Debt to His Father
• 1970: Saddlesore's Old Tom Clark

1972

• 1972: The Rockin' Blue Diamonds
• 1972: The Rockin' Blue Diamonds record an unsuccessful demo for Takoma Records

Shows/1972

1973

• Thompson visits Greece to record with Manos Hadjidakis; doesn't happen
• Thompson becomes an assistant to Robert Rauschenberg
• Writing for Art & Language's "Music-Language" project begins

1974

• [[File:|20x20px|link=|]] [[|]]

1975

• Premiere of Thompson co-directed film Mostly About Rauschenberg

1976

• June 1976: (Provisional) Art & Language exhibition
• June 1976: Corrected Slogans
• June 1976: Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors
• 1976 October/November: Filming for And Now for Something Completely Different

1978

• May 1978: Mayo Thompson meets Pere Ubu
• July 1978: Recording session: Wives in Orbit, Yik Yak, Hurricane Fighter Plane
• Radar Records reissues of The Parable of Arable Land and God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It
• October 1978: [[File:|20x20px|link=|]] [[|]] promo and Howdy from Texas the Lone Star State
• October 1978: Hurricane Fighter Plane
• October 1978: Wives in Orbit
• November 1978: UK Ubu Dance Party tour
• December 1978: Red Ubu tour

1979

• March 1979: Soldier-Talk
• October 1979: Micro-Chips & Fish

1980s

1980

• June 1980: Ghent music video
• July 1980: Born in Flames released

1981

• January 1980: [[File:|20x20px|link=C81|]] C81 compilation with The Milkmaid
• May? 1980: Kangaroo?
• ? An Old Man's Dream
• Rattenmensch/Gewichtswächter

1983

• Black Snakes
• Victorine
• Ludwig's Law
• Three Songs on a Trip to the United States

1984

• Recording of unreleased album Baby and Child Care

1986

• Gorki & Co. / 33 Songs
• Disco Death session
• Corky's Debt to His Father first reissued by Glass Records
• [[File:|20x20px|link=|]] [[|]]

1989

• 1989: release of Malefactor, Ade

1990s

1990

• The Quiet Album

1991

• All Together Now

1993

• 1993: The Red Crayola on Forty-Five
• 1993: Demo cassette
• 1993: Signs to Drag City
• 1993: Records 14, Stink Program, Columbia

1994

• March 1994: 14
• Mayo Thompson Records Nature on the Rauschenberg Estate
• September 1994: The Red Krayola
• September 1994: Old Tom Clark reissue
• October 1994: song Columbia released on Hey Drag City compilation
• October 1994: Filming of TV documentary The Red Krayola in Tokyo

1995

• March 1995: Coconut Hotel
• June 1995: Amor and Language
• 1995: records Chemistry

1996

• January 1996: Chemistry
• 1996: soundtrack for [[File:|20x20px|link=|]] [[|]]
• 1996: Deliverance
• December 1996: Hazel

1997

• 1997: In the Beginning
• June 1997: CD reissues of Corrected Slogans, Black Snakes, Three Songs on a Trip to the United States
• 1997: Songs for Ohio

1998

• September 1998: Father Abraham (remixes)
• November 1998: Ludwig's Law
• November 1998: Live 1967

1999

• Fingerpointing
• June 1999: Fingerpainting
• June 1999: Come on Down

2000s

2000

• October 2000: Blues, Hollers and Hellos

2001

• Circuit 9

2004

• July 2004: Singles
• July 2004: Japan in Paris in L.A.

2005

• 2005: God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It
• August 2005: Recording for Introduction, Red Gold

2006

• April 2006: Introduction
• November 2006: Red Gold

2007

• March: CD reissue of Soldier-Talk
• September: Sighs Trapped by Liars

2008

• 2008: Art & Language Sings a Song
• February 2008: LP reissue of Corky's Debt with Woof 7"
• July 2008: Fingerpointing

2009

• 2009: Recording for Five American Portraits

2010s

2010

• January 2010: Five American Portraits
• September 2010: Greasy Street

2012

• Whitney Biennial 2012
• Letters to the Jackson Pollock Bar in the Style of the Red Krayola
• Letters to the Red Krayola

2013

• Letters to the Jackson Pollock Bar in the Style of the Red Krayola (2013)

2014

• 2xLP reissue of Singles

2015

• April 2015: LP reissues of Corrected Slogans, Black Snakes, Malefactor, Ade, Amor and Language
• 8th Floor
• Thompson scores ballet film Excuse Me?!?...I'm Looking for the "Fountain of Youth"

2016

• [[File:|20x20px|link=Far East of Eden|]] Far East of Eden
• [[File:|20x20px|link=|]] [[|]]
• May 2016: Release of 1984 album Baby and Child Care

2018

• January 2018: Art, Mystery

2019

• [[File:|20x20px|link=|]] [[|]]
• Letters to the Jackson Pollock Bar in the Style of the Red Krayola (2019)

2020s

2020

• God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It
• October 2020: Live at the Hammer Museum
• Oily Works

2021

• Play The Red Krayola Live 1967

2022

• Keep All Your Friends
• Red Krayola Wiki