My first introduction to Algia Mae Hinton was through a 60-second video I happened upon on YouTube where she was buck dancing while playing the guitar behind her head! Who was this remarkable woman, and how had I never heard of her before? The clip, I later learned, was from a film produced by Mike Seeger titled Talking Feet. I would also soon learn that Algia Mae Hinton was a master of Piedmont blues, a preserver of old-time musical traditions, and an important piece of the story of the blues.
Algia Mae O’Neal was born on August 29, 1929, in Johnston County, North Carolina, in a farming community called O’Neal Township. Her parents, Alexander and Ollie O’Neal were tenant farmers who were also part of an early string band tradition (Bastin, 1986, p. 287). Ollie O’Neal was a multi-instrumentalist who played finger-picking Piedmont blues guitar, autoharp, harmonica, piano, and more. She was such an excellent guitarist that, like the infamous Robert Johnson, she was rumored to have sold her soul to the devil in exchange for her guitar prowess (Bastin, 1986).
All the Hintons played music. The youngest of 14 children, Algia Mae Hinton learned to play guitar at age 9 from her mother. In a 1994 interview with blues researcher Barry Lee Pearson (2020), Hinton details the extent of her mother’s influence on her own musicianship:
“I come from a big family and they all played. But my mother she was good at it. She played a lot of blues and spirituals. She did both of them. And she played everything. And she played guitar. She played piano. She’d blow a harp. She’d knock her spoons [. . . .] She done all that. You name it, she played it. Ain’t nothing she could see that she couldn’t play. So I’m gonna come on and do the same thing. I tried to learn like my mother did.”
The first song Hinton learned from her mother was “Honey Babe;” a song which later became the title of her first solo album (Matabane, 2014; Pearson, 2020). Her aunt also played guitar and banjo, teaching Hinton her most well-known song, “Cook Cornbread for Your Husband and Biscuits for Your Outside Man” (Pearson, 2020). Hinton’s father taught her buck dancing, “a percussive soft-shoe folk dance originating among African Americans during the antebellum period” (Turner, 2021, p. 5). Algia Mae Hinton would ultimately become a multi-instrumentalist like her mother – playing guitar, banjo, and piano – and a buck dancer like her father (“Sing on, Mrs. Hinton,” 1985). By adolescence, she was performing at house parties, “frolics,” and family gatherings, blending music and dance.
Like the Georgia-based blues guitarist Precious Bryant, Algia Mae Hinton’s music career was shaped by the death of her husband and by important connections she formed with other musicians and folklorists.
Hinton’s personal life was marked by hardship. After marrying Millard Hinton in 1950, they moved to Raleigh and had seven children. In 1965, Hinton returned to O’Neal Township after her husband’s untimely death. Hinton described her husband’s jealousy as a major obstacle to her music career:
“My father wasn’t jealous, but my husband was so jealous, I couldn’t even do nothing [. . . .] When I had the old man, I had to sit still. He was so jealous he couldn’t even stand me to talk [. . . .] I liked to play guitar, but he didn’t like to see me play. I say: ‘Man I’m used to playing guitar.’ He say: ‘You ain’t playing no guitar now’ [. . . .] I said, ‘Well, one of these days I will be playing my guitar.’ So I thanks the Lord he slipped away [. . . .] I didn’t play until he died” (Pearson, 2020).
Following the death of her husband, Hinton supported her family through seasonal farm work, supplementing her income playing guitar and buck dancing at house parties (Turner, 2021). She began to play beyond her local township community after accepting an invitation from folklorist Glenn Hinson to perform at the North Carolina Folk Festival. From there, she made the rounds in the folk festival circuit, playing at the National Folk Festival, the Chicago Blues Festival, American Folk Roots series at Carnegie Hall, the World’s Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee, the Port Townsend Blues Festival in Washington, and the Blues Al Femminile series in Turin, Italy (Lightnin’ Wells, 1996; Turner, 2021).
Her first recordings appeared on the 1978 Glenn Hinson-produced compilation album, Eight-Hand sets and Holy Steps. After playing at Carnegie Hall in 1984, she lost all her possessions, including her guitar, in a house fire. She wrote the song, “Going Down this Road” about that experience (Lightnin’ Wells, 1999). A year later, she released that song and four others on her first commercial album, Piedmont Folk Traditions, produced by her friend and collaborator Lightnin’ Wells on the now defunct Audio Arts label.
In 1996, Hinton released the album, Algia Mae Hinton – Honey Babe (Blues, Folk Tunes and Gospel from North Carolina), also produced by Lightnin’ Wells through the Hin-Tone label. Honey Babe was reissued in 1999 with a different track listing through the Music Maker Relief Foundation after Wells joined the board of directors a few years earlier.
Hinton’s career spanned decades. She appeared on numerous compilations, including Sisters of the South (2003), Blues Guitar Women (2005), and We Are the Music Makers (2014). She was also featured in Alan Lomax’s American Roots series and Eleanor Ellis’ Blues House Party. Her accolades included the 1992 North Carolina Folk Heritage Award and a nomination for the W.C. Handy Blues Award in 2000.
Algia Mae Hinton passed away on February 8, 2018, in Middlesex, North Carolina, at the age of 88. A custodian of the Piedmont blues tradition, Hinton preserved a critical link to the past while inspiring future generations. Her legacy lives on through her recordings, festival performances, and the buck dancing traditions she passed down to her children -- her son Williette Hinton continues to buck dance on the festival circuit -- and grandchildren. Algia Mae Hinton will forever remain a true gem in the history of blues, folk, gospel, and old-time music.
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Seven North Carolina Folk Heritage Award recipients to be honored. (1992, May 21). Winston-Salem Chronicle, B5.
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The Durham Arts Council & St. Joseph’s Historic Foundation present the second annual Bull Durham Blues Festival [advertisement]. (1989, September 9). The Carolina Times.
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Algia Mae Hinton & sister: Jesus lifted me (1983). (2011, April 11). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNnj6AarEOI
Algia Mae Hinton: Baby you don’t have to go (1983). (2013a, April 1). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btJ8u7ickxM
Algia Mae Hinton: Blues #1 (1983). (2013b, April 1). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYR_BSsAUeQ
Algia Mae Hinton: Blues #2 (1983). (2013, April 1). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYwAp5Budd4
Algia Mae Hinton buck dancing—1995—Home video. (2012, October 12). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3VT33nJpuc
Algia Mae Hinton flat-floots and shreds behind her head (1983). (2011, March 29). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHf86Lld6Cs
Algia Mae Hinton sings “Why should I worry” on her 80th birthday, N.C. Museum of Art. (2009, August 29). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiKf1kfrAaY
Algia Mae Hinton: Snap your fingers (1983). (2013c, April 1). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB0v1RMFjsE
Algia Mae Hinton: Step it up and go (1983). (2013d, April 1). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJlpeKkGo6Y
Algia Mae Hinton strikes up the ol’ banjo one more time for us on “Ol’ Georgia Buck Dance.” (2010, October 10). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHfsZViRNKE
Algia Mae Hinton: What in the world will become of me (1983). (2013e, April 1). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9bJd9sza-k
Algia Mae Hinton—Goin’ down this road feelin’ bad. (2015, December 17). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cce3EmF720
Algia Mae Hinton—Talking feet. (2019, September 9). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YChS0FoHUBY
Flat-footing with John Dee Holeman, Algia Mae Hinton & friends (8 of 9) (1983). (2013, April 1). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6QNG90ttCQ
Flat-footing with John Dee Holeman and Algia Mae Hinton (1 of 9) (1983). (2013, April 1). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCCiq5XXrLU&list=PL0C5cUsyCx8m3SSuDCZKhSDEBidKUvKP_
Flat-footing with John Dee Holeman and Algia Mae Hinton (2 of 9) (1983). (2013, April 1). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmrt7t2vWv4
Flat-footing with John Dee Holeman and Algia Mae Hinton (3 of 9) (1983). (2013, April 1). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV_4yfvF7nI
Flat-footing with John Dee Holeman and Algia Mae Hinton (4 of 9) (1983). (2013, April 1). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcxiqmOWltY
Flat-footing with John Dee Holeman and Algia Mae Hinton (5 of 9) (1983). (2013, April 1). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n1L9Xacd1c
Flat-footing with John Dee Holeman and Algia Mae Hinton (6 of 9) (1983). (2013, April 1). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD2Xts89XD0
Flat-footing with John Dee Holeman and Algia Mae Hinton (7 of 9) (1983). (2013, April 1). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwOTjwx3A8Y
Flat-footing with John Dee Holeman and friends (9 of 9) (1983). (2013, April 1). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxVe6tqapUI
John Dee Holeman & Algia Mae Hinton: Crow Jane (1983). (2013, April 1). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1bBCmYAabo
John Dee Holeman & Algia Mae Hinton: Yall come (1983). (2010, September 2). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp2FOVW4mnQ
Remembering Algia Mae Hinton. (2019, February 8). [Streaming]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo7JsXhhjmw
Banks, L., & Duffy, T. (2004). Living the blues [Film], in the Timothy Duffy Collection #20044, Southern Folklife Collection. Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20044/
Ellis, E. (1989). Blues Houseparty [Video recording]. https://www.folkstreams.net/films/blues-houseparty
Living the Blues (Trailer). (2012, May 1). [Streaming]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmMRcJsOFG8
Massengale, S. (Director). (1989a). Step it up and go: Blues in the Carolinas [Streaming]. University of North Carolina Center for Public Television. https://www.folkstreams.net/films/step-it-up-and-go
Massengale, S. (Director). (1989b). Step it up and go: Blues in the Carolinas, 1989 [Streaming]. University of North Carolina Southern Folklife Collection -- PineCone Records Collection (20563). https://dcr.lib.unc.edu/record/78e43cd3-0a00-4b02-9d5c-22597b55b67b
Seeger, M. (Director). (1987). Talking Feet [Streaming]. Folkstreams. https://www.folkstreams.net/films/talking-feet
Step it up and go. (2013, October 17). [Video recording]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd6EIqiLRlA
Algia Mae Hinton, Blues Music Awards, Traditional Blues Female Artist, 2000—21st W.C. Handy Blues Awards, Nominee. (n.d.). Blues Foundation. Retrieved June 29, 2024, from https://blues.org/awards/
"The Lomax Digital Archive provides free access to audio/visual collections compiled across seven decades by folklorist Alan Lomax (1915–2002) and his father John A. Lomax (1867–1948)."
The collection includes archival footage of performances by Algia Mae Hinton.
List of Algia Mae Hinton Materials: https://archive.culturalequity.org/person/hinton-algia-mae
“Glenn Hinson, a white professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has focused his research on the music, language, and belief systems of African American communities. The collection contains posters advertising gospel music performances in the Triangle area of North Carolina (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill); field recordings and audio interviews by Glenn Hinson with North Carolina based African American musicians and performers; as well as papers and audiovisual materials related to projects or fieldwork by students of Glenn Hinson at UNC.”
The collection includes audio interviews with Algia Mae Hinton (FS-20045/6659 through FS-20045/6661).
Finding aid: https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20045/#
“Timothy Duffy, a white folklorist and musician, produced field recordings of the American roots tradition as an undergraduate at Warren Wilson College and while working on a folklore master's degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A few years after graduating in 1991, he co-founded the Music Maker Relief Foundation (MMRF), a non-profit organization near Hillsborough, N.C., that helps southern roots tradition musicians meet their financial needs and gain recognition for their work. The collection chiefly relates to MMRF and includes artist files, CD liner proofs, correspondence, photographs, posters, audiovisual materials, and other papers, including Duffy's student papers and projects.”
Archival materials for Algia Mae Hinton include sound recordings, posters, performance clips, and interviews.
Finding aid: https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20044/
“The Media and the Movement Collection contains audio recordings, 1969-1978, and supporting documentation related to Black-owned community radio stations across the American South. Materials correspond to "Media and the Movement: Journalism, Civil Rights, and Black Power in the American South," an oral history project from 2011-2015 based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Southern Oral History Program and funded by the North Carolina Humanities Council and National Endowment for the Humanities.”
The collection includes “Glenn Hinson and Algia Mae Hinton Interviews” (DF-70092/12).
Finding aid: https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/70092/#d1e59
“The Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley (commonly known as the Eno River Association) is a non-profit conservation organization whose mission is to conserve and protect the natural, cultural, and historic resources of North Carolina's Eno River basin [. . . .] The collection consists primarily of audio recordings, including interviews, live performances, radio broadcasts, and audition tapes related to the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley and their annual Festival for the Eno.”
Archival materials on Algia Mae Hinton include sound recordings, posters, photographs, and programs from the Eno festival
Finding aid: https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20329/
“The North Carolina Folklife Media Project Collection contains radio programs and associated field recordings, 1982-1983, produced by the North Carolina Folklife Media Project, a National Endowment for the Arts funded media project directed by Cecelia (Cece) Conway, a white folklorist and professor at Appalachian State University.”
The North Carolina Traditions radio programs feature includes both Algia Mae Hinton and Etta Baker. There are also “field recordings, 1983, of Algia Mae Hinton that were used as source material for the North Carolina Traditions radio program, ‘Algia Mae Hinton: Blues Woman of Zebulon.’”
Finding aid: https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20106/
The State Archives of North Carolina collects, preserves, and provides public access to historically significant archival materials relating to North Carolina. Archival materials on Algia Mae Hinton can be found in the following collections:
Arts Council Record Group – Folklife Section (see master tapes: audio, photographs and slides file, tape logs and accession lists file, projects file, resource file, North Carolina Folk Heritage Awards file)
General Negative Collection – Negatives Received in 1985
News and Observer Photograph Collection, 1938-2018 – News and Observer Negative File (1981 & 1985)
Longleaf Records (001). Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue. Released 1978. View Liner Notes
Audio Arts (10) (AAEP009). Format: Vinyl, 7", 33 ⅓ RPM, EP. Released 1985. View Liner Notes
Hin-Tone (HT822929). Format: CD, Album. Released 1996. View Liner Notes
Cello Recordings (91005-2). Music Maker Series. Format: CD, Album, Slipcase. Released 1999. View Liner Notes
Music Maker Relief Foundation (MMCD32). Format: CD, Compilation. Released 2003. View Images
DixieFrog (DFGCD 8649). Format: 2 x CD, Compilation, Digipack. Released 2008 (France). View Images
Ruf records (RUF 1110)(RCD 10322). Format: CD, Compilation. Released Oct. 25, 2005. View Liner Notes
Moi J'Connais Records (MJCR015). Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation. Released 2012. View Images
Music Maker Relief Foundation (MMCD 166-1). Format: CD, Compilation. Released 2014. View Liner Notes