| Date | City | Place | Arrangement |
| 1956 thru 1961 | Amarillo TX | First Instrument | Violin in Orchestra |
| 1961 thru 1963 | First Band - Twilights | Mostly Lubbock | Dances and Parties Mostly Lubbock |
| 1963 thru 1964 | Rock band Rox LTD. | Lubbock, Clovis, Dallas | Parties and Honky Tonks |
| December 3-8, 1966 | Ft Worth TX | Cellar Club | With Neurotic Sheep |
| December 10-31, 1966 | Houston TX | Cellar Club | With Neurotic Sheep |
| January - March 1967 | Venice CA | Scattered Solo gigs | |
| 1968 | Mostly Lubbock | Scattered Solo gigs | |
| Jan-69 | Crestline CA | Scattered band gigs | |
| May-69 | Austin TX | Vulcan Gas Co and One Knite | |
| November, 1969 | New York, NY | New York Shakespeare Theater | The Off Broadway play Stomp(And Now the Revolution) for 4 months |
| May, 1970 | Paris and Rennes France | Stomp | Stomp Ensemble |
| June, 1970 | Vienna Austria, Brussels | Stomp | Stomp Ensemble |
| July, 1970 | Rotterdam, Amsterdam, the Hague | Stomp | Stomp Ensemble |
| August, 1970 | Switzerland, Rome, Dubrovnik | Stomp | Stomp Ensemble |
| September, 1970 | Edinburgh, London | Stomp | Stomp Ensemble |
| October, 1970 | Berlin, Munich | Stomp | Stomp Ensemble |
| November, 1970 | Back to Lubbock | ||
| April - June 1971 | Munich Germany | Museum of Modern Art Performance and first album recorded in Munich "Day's Lullabye" | With Eberhard Schoener and Bruce Gambill |
| July, 1971 | Drifting in Lubbock | Flatlanders House | Gigs with Jimmie Dale Gilmore |
| December, 1971 | Odessa Texas | Flatlander First Recording-14 Songs | At Tommy Alsups Studio |
| February, 1972 | Nashville TN | Flatlander Recording - 17 songs | Shelby Singletons Plantation Studio |
| May, 1972 | Kerrville TX | Kerrville Folk Festival | and Armadillo World Headquarters |
| October, 1972 | New York, NY | via Amarillo, Vicksburg, Toledo | Freight trains and Hitchhiking |
| May ,1973 | New York to Lubbock | Ringling Brothers Circus | Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma |
| September, 1973 | Lubbock TX | Ely Band with Lloyd Maines and Rick Hulett and Don Caldwell | |
| 1974 | Lubbock and Austin | Roadhouses and Honkytonks | Ely Band with Lloyd Maines and Rick Hulett, Don Caldwell, Curley Lawler, and TJ (Tiny) McFarland |
| 1975 | Lubbock and Austin | Roadhouses and Honkytonks - Recording Demo at Don Caldwells Studio Lubbock | Ely Band with Lloyd Maines, Jesse Taylor, Greg Wright, and Steve Keeton |
| 1976 | West Texas and Nashville | Record Deal With MCA Produced by Chip Young - Nashville | Ely Band with Lloyd Maines, Jesse Taylor, Rick Hulett, Ponty Bone, Greg Wright, and Steve Keeton w/ Muscle Shoals Horns |