3. Faith Hill vs. Carrie Underwood

When then-newcomer Underwood won Best Female Vocalist at the 2006 Country Music Awards, TV cameras captured her fellow nominee Hill, who had just performed and was waiting backstage, looking stunned and very visibly mouthing "What!?" The clip became an instant Internet sensation and much bigger hit than Hill had had in a while; the one you see above has racked up more than 5.3 million views to date.

Both singers' PR squads immediately went into damage-control mode, floating statements like Hill was only being "playful." The two singers made nice, for the media anyway, and the whole thing was threatening to die down when LeAnn Rimes blew it up all over again by posting this statement on her Web site: "These awards shows are SO political and we all get fed up with them. We all work very hard and have for many years so to see someone come in and win Female Vocalist that has been here for a VERY short time, is a little disheartening."

We're sure whatever mid-level flack had to work overtime to clean up that mess thanks LeAnn from the bottom of her heart. Imagine if Twitter had been around back then.

2. Travis Tritt vs. Billy Ray Cyrus

Travis Tritt poked a hole ten feet tall and bulletproof in the glad-handing, softball-question atmosphere of Nashville's Fan Fair in 1992 when he told a reporter he thought Cyrus' megahit "Achy Breaky Heart" "doesn't really make much of a statement" and "seems kind of frivolous." Appalled, the press went into overdrive and put the story on the wire, and it soon became all Music City could talk about. Tritt eventually decided to appear on a local call-in program to set the record straight, which he did by standing by what he said and adding, "I don't want to see country music get to the point where it's turned into an ass-wiggling contest."

"I broke the cardinal rule of country music and I didn't even know it," Tritt wrote in his book 10 Feet Tall and Bulletproof. "You just don't say anything negative about anybody, period."

1. Tammy Wynette's Children vs. Her Widower & Doctor

Hope you had a good laugh at those last two, because this one's not funny at all. After the "Stand By Your Man" singer passed away in April 1998, her daughters Georgette Smith, Jackie Daley and Tina Jones filed a wrongful death lawsuit against her widower, George Richey, and physician Wallis Marsh in April 1999. Seeking damages in the neighborhood of $50 million, the kids claimed Marsh had overprescribed narcotics to Wynette and Richey failed to give her proper treatment.

Richey was dropped from the lawsuit in May 1999, but not before authorizing an autopsy. Wynette was exhumed in April 1999 and found to have died of heart failure; the Nashville medical examiner ruled the drugs found in her system had not affected her death. Marsh and Wynette's daughters settled out of court in 2002.