Sidemen take center stage

They helped make some of the best-loved songs in popular music with the likes of Stevie Wonder, Patsy Cline, Frank Sinatra, the Beach Boys and Elvis Presley, but they were content to let the stars take the spotlight.

But on Monday night, artists including Garth Brooks, Amy Grant and Roger McGuinn paid tribute to some of the musicians who played behind the big names, as the Musicians Hall of Fame & Museum in Nashville honored its first class of inductees: the Nashville A-Team; the Funk Brothers; the Wrecking Crew; the Memphis Boys; the Tennessee Two; and the Blue Moon Boys.