It’s a tradition of sorts for Grammy-winning songwriter and guitarist Pat McLaughlin to play a show at 3rd and Lindsley around Thanksgiving. He usually plays on Black Friday, but this year McLaughlin is performing on Nov. 26, the eve of the holiday. As always, he and his crack band — guitarist Kenny Greenberg, bassist Steve Mackey and drummer Greg Morrow — will take the audience on a two-hour tour of his deep catalog of songs. McLaughlin never repeats a set from one show to the next, and when asked what he has in store for the audience for the Nov. 26 performance, he quips, “I’m just gonna try to remember the words for the songs this time.” It’s a lot of words to remember. McLaughlin was a frequent collaborator with John Prine and co-wrote Prine’s Grammy-winning single “I Remember Everything.” Jimmy Buffett, Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, Trisha Yearwood, Nanci Griffith and many others have also recorded his songs. In addition to “a couple of new ones,” McLaughlin tells the Scene he plans to perform one of his two co-writes on The Black Keys’ latest release No Rain, No Flowers — the bluesy “Down to Nothing.” “It’s kind of humbling to be on there,” he says of the co-writes with the Keys.
7:30 p.m. at 3rd and Lindsley
818 Third Ave. S.
