Sentence examples for sheep boy from inspiring English sources

After the artful hysteria of his 2005 album, "Black Sheep Boy," and its apocalyptic epilogue, "Black Sheep Boy Appendix," he took some time off to figure out his next move.

(Anderson) Okkervil River (Monday) These erudite indie-rockers from Austin, Tex., are known for vast conceptual albums, be the topics a heroin-addicted folk singer ("Black Sheep Boy") or the plight of a failing glam-rock band ("The Stand Ins").

Opening with the rough-edged power pop of It Was my Season, the gig contines with the brainy pub rock of Black Lyrics from Black Sheep Boy, their concept album about the doomed singer-songwriter Tim Buckley.

That theme runs through Okkervil River's 2005 album, "Black Sheep Boy," "The Stage Names" from 2007 and its new album, "The Stand Ins," which was recorded at the same sessions as "The Stage Names" but easily stands on its own.

At 9 p.m., Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 North Sixth Street, Brooklyn, (800) 745-3000, musichallofwilliamsburg.com; $20. (Anderson) Okkervil River (Thursday) These erudite indie-rockers from Austin, Tex., are known for vast conceptual albums, be the topics a heroin-addicted folk singer ("Black Sheep Boy") or the plight of a failing glam-rock band ("The Stand Ins").

My favorite album was Black Sheep Boy, an allegorical exploration of 60s musician Tim Hardin - meaty stuff for a concept album.

He also made note of guests whose behavior he found weird or upsetting: the guy who secretly urinated in his date's bourbon; the obese fellow who checked in with a much younger man and then dressed him up in a furry costume with horns, saying, "You are heavenly; I have never seen a more beautiful sheep-boy".

I loved teaching Dickey's "The Sheep Child" after showing them a Skittles commercial that portrayed a couple of "sheep-boys" eating Skittles on a stump.

The future of drink-driving, robot fish save the world, inappropriate smiling, sheep thrills, son of a gun, boys' toys and funky funghi.

"Draw me a sheep," says the boy to the wide-eyed pilot.

With sixty sheep to one boy and all the tree shade he could want, my grandfather taught himself to read that first summer.