Flywood is a young band — Hackett, the oldest, is 21, and Pat Young is still in high school — but it has potential.

Courtesy photo Flywood tries to blend different styles, but there are still a lot of songs about love and drinking. Or are they about loving drinking?

THEY ARE: Flywood

THE SOUND: Southern rock/Americana/Texas Music. In addition to its originals, Flywood covers the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd. The band also likes to throw in some Pantera, Jimi Hendrix, funk and reggae. “Most of the Texas music is just straight country based with just a little bit of rock to it. I think we get a little more outside the box with it and introduce some different styles,” said lead guitarist Tom Young.

THE MEMBERS: Devin Lee, lead vocals and guitar; Tom Young, lead guitar; Pat Young (Tom's younger brother), bass; John Hackett, drums

THE ALBUMS: The band released a self-titled six-song demo in June and will head back into the studio in December to record a full-length album. The tracks are primarily “love songs and drinking songs, like most country,” said Tom Young, but his favorite is a political one, “Golden Eagle.” “It's kind of about the war and young people that are our age who are fighting and dying in another country for some reason we don't know,” he said. KRPT-FM The Outlaw (92.5) is spinning “Golden Eagle” along with “Rescue Me” and “Bend.”

THEIR WORDS: “The cowboys from hell, that's totally us, for sure.” — Devin Lee

WHERE TO SEE THEM: The band will play Wordfest at the University of Incarnate Word, where Tom Young is a sophomore, on Saturday, Sept. 8. The event runs 5-11 p.m. and costs $5. Flywood also plays Billy's Ice, 1193 Loop 337 in New Braunfels, every third Saturday of the month; Lee and Tom Young play an acoustic set there every other Thursday.

THE WEB: myspace.com/flywood

THE 210 TAKE: Flywood is a young band — Hackett, the oldest, is 21, and Pat Young is still in high school — but it has potential. Their strength lies in their willingness to meld genres. “I think a lot of these bands now in Texas music, they want to be like Randy Rogers or they want to be like Pat Green or they want to be like Cross Canadian Ragweed,” said Lee, the band's lyricist. “We just want to be Flywood. We want to do what's fun for us.”

Jessica Belasco | 210SA contributor