The Municipal Auditorium was built in the 1950's and looks like a UFO that has landed in downtown Nashville. Most people are not aware that it now houses a museum for the Musician's Hall of Fame. The 2014 awards ceremony was the first they have held in a few years. Most of the recipients are session players who are not exactly household names, but you have heard them play on thousands of records in genres ranging from country to rock and roll and R&B. This was a great opportunity to hear top notch musicians do what they do best. Chris Issac sang 2 Roy Orbison songs, including "Pretty Woman," which got the "Iconic Riff" award. He is one of the few singers around with the vocal chops to pull this off. Duane Eddy and Corki Casey O'Dell played an instrumental that sounded just as good today as the surf records they did back in the 60's. Will Lee, the long-time bass player on the David Letterman Show, teamed up with Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top on an obscure Iron Butterfly cover, as well as the Motown hit "Thank You" and ZZ Top's "La Grange." Billy Wayne Shepherd and the surviving members of Double Trouble shredded their guitars on some of the late Stevie Ray Vaughn's best known tunes. Another guitar hero, Peter Frampton, played "Do You Feel Like I Do" and told some great anecdotes about playing with George Harrison. The Oak Ridge Boys had everybody on their feet singing "Elvira" accompanied by Jimmy Capps, a very smooth guitar picker who still plays at the Opry. Neil Young gave a moving tribute to the late Ben Keith, who played steel guitar on most of Neil's albums, not to mention Patsy Cline's "I Fall to Pieces." The biggest disappointments were that Buddy Guy could not make it to the ceremony, and Neil Young and Barbara Mandrell did not perform, although it was fun watching Barbara dancing on the side of the stage during many of the other performances.The man who stole the show was Canadian rocker Randy Bachman, co-founder of the Guess Who and BTO. When he started playing that droning guitar riff from "American Woman," chills went up my spine. This was a fun night I got a bit of music education in the process. If you are ever in Nashville go see the museum as well.