Who is Sister Ann?
“… Sister Ann says ‘there’s no need to find solace in anything if you don’t want to’…” At his acoustic shows in 1993, Roddy said that Ann Adams is a friend of his who was a nun and wrote a book called “Silver Boat”. The story is a healing metaphorical fantasy written for persons who had been abused as children. top What does Frestonia mean? The meaning behind “Frestonia” was debated for several years on the mailing list and perhaps the most interesting thing to come out of those discussions is this: a friend of someone on the list took one look at the album title and noticed it was an anagram for “in a forest”, which doesn’t seem terribly coincidental considering the picture on the sleeve. Coincidental as that may be, the real story behind it is that the studio in which the album was recorded is located on Freston Road in West London. During the ’60s and ’70s, I’m told, this area was sort of a hang out for hippy-types (another Haight/Ashbury?) who at one point declared independence
