Cooltide is more characteristic of John’s style and the synthesizers were less evident than The Apprentice. All John’s trade marks are present, strangled duck vocals, subdued beat with excellent instrumentation. Tremendous bass lines featured through Jack The Lad, the up tempo The Cure and the atmospheric title track. An early insight in to the development of this track was later to be released on the Live At Bristol 1991 album. Father Time is a jazz orientated track and different from the other tracks on the album in that respect. Emotion and heartfelt vocals are particularly evident on Call Me. An album which many fans return to on a regular basis. John toured during September and October.

Jack the Lad was released as a CD single with a remix of the same song as track 2 called Jack Sez and Annie Says as a third track.

1. Hole In The Rain (J. Martyn)
2. Annie Says (J. Martyn)
3. Jack The Lad (J. Martyn)
4. Number Nine (J. Martyn)
5. The Cure (J. Martyn)
6. Same Difference (J. Martyn)
7. Father Time (J. Martyn)
8. Call Me (J. Martyn)
9. Cooltide (J. Martyn)

Catalogue Number: PERM CD 4 and PERM LP 4 Permanent Records
Matrix / Runout: Side A – PERMLP004A1 EW PAULS and Side B – PERMLP004-B1 EW THE EXCHANGE

All Songs Written by – John Martyn
Vocals and Guitars – John Martyn
Keyboards and Synth Bass – Spencer Cozens
Keyboards – Foster Patterson
Bass – Alan Thomson (Same Difference and Call Me)
Bass – Dave Ball (Number Nine)
Drums – John Henderson
Drums – Arran Ahmun (Number Nine)
Percussion – Miles Bould
Soprano Saxophone – Any Sheppard
Vibes – Joe Locke
Backing Vocals – Jessica King (Same Difference)
Production – John Martyn, Brian Young and Spencer Cozens
Engineer – Brian Young
Assistant Engineer – Tony Doogan
Management – JLP Management
Agency – Permanent Artistes
Front and Back Sleeve Paintings – Douglas McKechnie
Special thanks to Annie, Spenser McGeachy, Kenny McDonal, Archie Higgins and The Grove