CMT has announced "CMT Crossroads: Bret Michaels & Chris Janson," featuring Poison frontman Bret Michaels and country singer-songwriter Chris Janson.
Janson will be seen performing one of the first songs he learned to play on guitar, '80s rock hit "Talk Dirty To Me," along with Michaels during the show.
The show also features the men duetting on each other's songs, including Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" and "Your Mama Don't Dance" and Janson's No. 1s "Fix a Drink," "Good Vibes" and "Buy Me A Boat."
"CMT Crossroads: Bret Michaels & Chris Janson" will premiere on December 20 at 9p/8c with an immediate encore at 10p/9c. The episode will go live on CMT.com and CMT VOD on December 21st with subsequent premieres on CMT Music and MTV Live.
"I've been a lifelong fan of Bret and, of course, Poison because that's the music I was raised on," Janson said. "The experience was unbelievable. It was just totally that every second that I was around him, especially when I was up on stage. It was blowing my own mind that it was actually happening."
Additional Encores:
Saturday, 12/23 at 12p/11c (CMT)
Sunday, 12/24 at 8p/7c (MTV Live)
Wednesday, 12/27 at 8p/7c (MTV Live)
Saturday, 12/30 at 9p (CMT Music)
Sunday, 12/31 at 8p (CMT Music)
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