Working the same hard-fought, wise and worn narrative forms as Steve Earle, John Prine and Townes Van Zandt, Koons paints vivid portraits of people and places that make it through loneliness and loss, and emerge the stronger and more alive for it. His most recent album is Welcome to The Nowhere Motel, which was released in June 2009 on Kealon Records. Koons appeared at the Way Out Club on July 8, 2009.