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CMT Most Shocking: Stories Behind Southern Rock and Outlaw Country is a riveting look at the stories of wild days and personal tragedies behind country music and Southern rock pioneers. The one-hour special features a group of rebels who often chafed at a rigid recording industry to make music on their own terms and includes interviews with Merle Haggard, the late Waylon Jennings, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Charlie Daniels, Rodney Crowell, Montgomery Gentry and more. Actress Janine Turner hosts. Commenting on his own rebel background and prison days, Haggard says, ""My dad was dead, and my mother was working; and my brother was gone. It (jail) was sort of a place to go. Jail was more fun than home was."" Country's Most Shocking: Stories Behind Southern Rock and Outlaw Country includes first-hand accounts from the artists who lived the adventures, as well as musicians, witnesses, journalists and historians. Events include the deadly plane crash that killed Lynyrd Skynyrd's Southern rock cult hero an

Explore the world of extreme athletes in the most extreme sport – the world of the bullfighters of the Professional Bull Riding (PBR) circuit in CMT Most Shocking: Stomped and Gored. ""If they're not a little on the crazy side, then they're not gonna be a bullfighter very long,"" says Chris Shivers, 2003 PBR World Champion, of the bullfighters. Affectionately known as ""cowboy lifesavers,"" the job of a professional rodeo bullfighter is to get between a bucking bull and its ejected rider. Country's Most Shocking: Stomped & Gored is an hour of stories full of back-breaking, bucking action as today's fearless and legendary bullfighters relive their most infamous injuries and near death experiences. Gut-wrenching footage and profiles of three legendary bullfighters including 30-year veteran Rob Smets, towering Texan Greg Crabtree and soft-spoken Aussie Dennis Johnson round out this brutal and fascinating documentary.

Find out what all the fuss is about -- from a freezer full of frozen pets to a ruckus over a mullet -- as CMT revisits some of the most infamous feuds in country music. CMT Most Shocking: Feuds gives the scoop on the Travis Tritt - Billy Ray Cyrus mullet melee; the Hank Williams estate battle between Hank Willams Jr. and Jett Williams; the love triangle involving Glen Campbell and Mac Davis; and the bizarre twists, winding probate and frozen pet fracas surrounding the Jim Reeves Museum. The episode also visits Pikeville, Ky., for a look at the granddaddy of all feuds, the Hatfields and McCoys. Brad Paisley pushed the buttons of pop singer-songwriter Richard Marx when Paisley publicly stated that country music is about the song and pop music is about the production. ""Steam started to come off my scalp,"" Marx says. ""I was personally offended because I guess, especially at that time, I did consider myself a pop songwriter. And so, in a sense, even though I know he wasn't directing it pers

All those gun-totin', Sun-Tzu reading, NASCAR-watching, Oliver Stone-thinkin' types are out there. Best of all, most of them love to talk. And shoot. Everything's a conspiracy, everyone's suspect and maybe, just maybe, they might make half a bit of sense. CMT Most Shocking: Survivalists seeks out the backwoods patriots and front-office spokesmen for those who prepare, week in and week out, for the moment when destiny and circumstance call. We track the training and tactics of the Michigan Core Militia: Wolverines, an organization nearly 100,000 strong. We spend time with Alex Jones, the Drudge of the anti-New World Order echelon. We even search the hills and forests seeking those who range even farther off the beaten path, turning their backs on a society they feel has gone so far astray.

It's not the muscle-bound men in black, or the one-eyed jack with a sawed-off and a leather motorcycle jacket busting into a desert hideaway, finger on the trigger, toothpick in the corner of his mouth and a well-worn quip on his lips. This is the real world of the modern bounty hunter -- dudes in grubby T-shirts digging through empty sacks of Cheetos to find their secondhand Kevlar vest, because their suspect finally walked out of his grandmother's house to grab the paper after three days of a stakeout. It's not a glamorous job. CMT Most Shocking: Bounty Hunters follows the bail recovery process, from skip to take to seizure. Ride shotgun with the real men and women who risk their time and self-respect (and sometimes even life and limb) to get their percentage of the percentage and haul in the wayward criminal element.

Sports-related scandals involving gambling, sex, murder, recruiting violations and drugs have made headlines throughout the years and brought dishonor to college athletics. Hosted by Trace Adkins, CMT Most Shocking: College Sports Headlines examines felonious activity and corruption on campuses where collegiate sports programs have been plagued with point shaving, murder, rape, recruiting violations and volatile actions by coaches such as Woody Hayes and Bobby Knight. This CMT original program includes an interview with U.S. Sen. John McCain about proposed legislation to ban gambling on college sports. He tells CMT, ""Look, I don't pretend to be the expert on this situation, but I don't know how we can ignore the college presidents and the coaches association who say this is their highest priority."" McCain adds, ""This is a terrible temptation for our players, and we don't want the temptation in their paths."" Topics include a sports-related murder and cover-up at Baylor University, as we

Some of America's most unusual occupations and uniquely creative ways to make a living are revealed in CMT Most Shocking: Ways to Make a Buck. They are the sort of occupations that will have you pondering, ""How does someone get that job?"" Intriguing and often eccentric vocations such as human cannonballs, crime-scene cleaners and American matadors are featured. The show also delivers the action of alligator wranglers, how professional mermaids eat and drink under water, the nail-biting heights of the steeplejack and the daily drama and suspense of the bounty hunter in a one-hour episode that reminds us there are a million ways to make a buck -- from professional pooper-scoopers to the crack-fillers at Mt. Rushmore.

If it's true that ""love is where you find it,"" then CMT has discovered some of America's most unusual places to become a target for Cupid's arrow. CMT Most Shocking: Ways to Fall in Love tells the real-life stories of eight unique couples who have fallen in love on motorcycles, strapped to parachutes, in a Wild West show, and even on a bucking bronco -- no bull. Some of the amazing stories include Tammy and Frank Kelly who met in a rodeo ring. Frank was the bull-riding instructor teaching Tammy how to hang on for eight seconds; now they're hanging on to each other for life. Michelle Moore and Dan Zack met while parachuting into a fire during a life-saving training session. Now married, they are both smoke jumpers. And it's not your usual pick-up line, but when Matthew Molotov asked Felecity if he could throw a knife at her, the sparks also flew. Now the two perform in a Wild West show where their act includes swallowing swords and eating fire.