The Helpful Soul has been played on NTS shows including Acid Memories w/ Astral Vibes, with Little Wing first played on 15 May 2019.

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The career of The Helpful Soul was a real case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time — they hit their blues stride just as heavy blues was becoming hard rock, and graduated to heavy rock too late to capitalise on even that brief fad. They are perhaps most notable for their rendition of "Peace for Fools", which appeared on their otherwise bog-standard blues dirge debut LP.

Unfortunately, leader Junio Nakahara was so inspired by witnessing a performance by…