Wynonna Judd, Vince Gill, Brandi Carlile and Bob Seger offer surprise tribute performances at the invitation-only Nashville ceremony Nancy Kruh is a Nashville-based writer-reporter for PEOPLE.

Nancy Kruh is a Nashville-based writer ... Tucker is joined by two more living legends: Patty Loveless, another vocal powerhouse who had a string of hits beginning in the late 1980s; and ...