Mike Wolfe discusses with Gabe McCauley and sheds light on how bikes took the personal transportation industry and kicked it into gear. To watch more "Reconnecting Roots", check your local public television listings for air times - OR - visit https://reconnectingroots.tv Find us on: FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ReconnectingRootsTV/ INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/reconnectingrootstv TWITTER: https://twitter.com/RRTVtweets

With digital streaming now being the preferred way for most music fans to listen to songs, why is vinyl getting more popular year after year? Gabe sits down with John Krautner (from The Go) who explains the everlasting appeal of records in the digital age, filmed at Third Man Pressing. To watch more "Reconnecting Roots", check your local public television listings for air times - OR - visit https://reconnectingroots.tv Find us on: FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ReconnectingRootsTV/ INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/reconnectingrootstv TWITTER: https://twitter.com/RRTVtweets

Rory Feek: songwriter, performer, author, movie director. He’s built a career working across many different art forms. But lately, he’s been building something entirely different - a one-room schoolhouse. Of course, we had to wonder, why build your own school in this day and age? To watch more "Reconnecting Roots", check your local public television listings for air times - OR - visit https://reconnectingroots.tv Find us on: FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ReconnectingRootsTV/ INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/reconnectingrootstv TWITTER: https://twitter.com/RRTVtweets

Heidi Feek performs "Home on the Range" from the "Irish Immigration" episode of Reconnecting Roots, which is currently streaming! Danny Boy (F. E. Weatherly) This song, so strongly associated with Ireland, was brought into being because of Irish immigration to America. Weatherly unsuccessfully published “Danny Boy” in 1910. His Irish sister-in-law heard the traditional Irish tune "Londonderry Air" in Colorado, after she had immigrated there. She sent the music to him in England, and he adapted the lyrics of “Danny Boy” to fit the melody in 1913 to create one of the most popular songs in modern history. To watch more "Reconnecting Roots", check your local public television listings for air times - OR - visit https://reconnectingroots.tv

To watch more "Reconnecting Roots", check your local public television listings for air times - OR - visit https://reconnectingroots.tv Find us on: FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ReconnectingRootsTV/ INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/reconnectingrootstv TWITTER: https://twitter.com/RRTVtweets

Rory Feek: songwriter, performer, author, movie director. He’s built a career working across many different art forms. But lately, he’s been building something entirely different - a one-room schoolhouse. He says that with a one room schoolhouse, "we get a chance to do things here that you wouldn't get in a lot of schools..." To watch more "Reconnecting Roots", check your local public television listings for air times - OR - visit https://reconnectingroots.tv Find us on: FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ReconnectingRootsTV/ INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/reconnectingrootstv TWITTER: https://twitter.com/RRTVtweets

firekid and Mandy McCauley perform "This Little Light of Mine" from the "Religion" episode of Reconnecting Roots, which is currently streaming! This Little Light O’ Mine (Unknown) What started as a children’s Sunday school song transformed into a civil rights anthem over the 20th century. Side A of this record uses the first known recording of the song, performed in 1939 by Doris McMurray, an inmate at a Texas prison. The recording is among a historic collection of American music documented by folklorists John and Ruby Lomax. To watch more "Reconnecting Roots", check your local public television listings for air times - OR - visit https://reconnectingroots.tv

Gabe learned so much about bicycles while hanging out with Mike Wolfe American Picker...he even learned about the bike Mike dreamed of owning as a kid. To watch more "Reconnecting Roots", check your local public television listings for air times - OR - visit https://reconnectingroots.tv Find us on: FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ReconnectingRootsTV/ INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/reconnectingrootstv TWITTER: https://twitter.com/RRTVtweets

This performance comes from Season 2, Episode 1 - "Recording Industry" which is streaming now! Visit http://reconnectingroots.tv to watch the full episode. This song is one of many from the new album "Reconnecting Roots Vol. II: Songs from the Original Series", which is streaming now! Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2nzLD5vbGRNUd25hGtXozH Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/…/reconnecting-roots-vol…/1506215638 Written by Irving Berlin in the heyday of ragtime for the 1914 musical, Watch Your Step. This recorded version is from 1916. It’s one of the few true examples in American popular music of counterpoint. Fun fact, this song was featured on The Muppet Show with “Fozzie” and Jean Stapleton in 1978. To watch more "Reconnecting Roots", check your local public television listings for air times - OR - visit https://reconnectingroots.tv Find us on: FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ReconnectingRootsTV/ INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/reconnectingrootstv