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Musical artist

Algia Mae Hinton (née O'Neal; August 29, 1929 – February 8, 2018) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist and vocalist,^[1] based in Johnston County, North Carolina, United States.

Biography

She was the youngest child of Alexander and Ollie O'Neal and grew up in an area known as the O'Neal Tri-Township, named after the slave-holders who originally owned the land.^[2] Her father had been a tenant farmer and eventually earned enough to buy a home and some land in the township.^[2] At age nine, Algia Mae learned the guitar from her mother, who was a singer and a guitarist expert in the Piedmont finger-picking style, and who often played at family gatherings, house parties, and services at the local congregation.^[2][3] From her father, who was a dancer, Algia Mae learned buck dancing and the two-step.^[4]

Algia Mae married Millard R.

Hinton in 1950. They subsequently moved to Ral