The street song of the Puglia province of Italy, a folk tradition going back to the thirteenth century, is an art that might well have disappeared if it had not been perpetuated by Matteo Salvatore. The disciple of a blind old fiddler who taught him the whole repertory when he was only seven years old, Matteo Salvatore made a name for himself from town to town, from to , until he had his first successes in Turin. It was in 1973 that he recorded this eloquent testimony to the expressive power of these refrains, to be sung ‘in a small thin voice, as our ancestors sang them’.
· Il lamento dei mendicanti (4'04) · Mo ve'la bella mia da la muntagna (2'50) · Lu furastiero (2'40) · Il pescivendolo (1'56) · Il giorno dei morti (3'30) · San Michele del Monte (2'23) · Padrone mio (2'07) · Popolo del paese (3'33) · La storia dei due fannulloni (2'18) · Inno della republica (1'45) · Francisco a lu paiese (2'10) · Lu pecurere (2'55) · Lu polverone (3'12) · La notte e'bella (2'25)
