Former Divine Horsemen cofounder and Leonard Cohen backup singer Julie Christensen delivered a special Valentine’s Day treat for her fans Monday with the release of a new video premiering on the Big Takeover. The clip is for “Heart’s Not in It – Down to the Well,” from her recently released album 11 From Kevin — Songs of Kevin Gordon.

For the video, the singer/songwriter combined live footage from a performance at Ireland’s 32 Bar in Van Nuys, California, with road footage shot by Magnus Diehl. Christensen edited the video.

“I played this bar a hundred times,” Christensen told the Big Takeover. “The first line sums up the feeling of both songs in this ‘medley.’ The bar can be any bar, anywhere. A singer inhabits these places over a lifetime, and they all blend together, for the most part. There are a couple of cameos of a 20-something version of me in a party dress, holding court on some stage in Hollywood (ye olde Lhasa Club of yore).

She continued: “Mostly, I’m just a lifer traveling into the sunset, or the sunrise, and hauling myself on to a stage, where it feels good while I’m on it. Maybe that girl in polka dots is who I address in the last verse of ‘Down To The Well.’ ”

Check out the video for “Heart’s Not in It – Down to the Well” right here:

Born and raised in Iowa, Christensen cofounded punk/roots band Divine Horsemen with punk poet Chris D., frontman of the Flesh Eaters, in Los Angeles in 1983. The band became influential with their alt-country sound, which was fairly new at the time. Christensen departed from Divine Horsemen after getting sober in 1987 and became a backup vocalist for Leonard Cohen.

Christensen later embarked upon an enduring career as a singer/songwriter, releasing her first solo album, Love Is Driving, in 1996. (That same year, she also released The Cardinal, an album with her band Stone Cupid.) Her subsequent solo efforts include Soul Driver (2000), Something Familiar (2006), Where the Fireworks Are (2007), Weeds Like Us and 11 From Kevin — Songs of Kevin Gordon. Wirebird Records released her new album on January 21, the same day Christensen turned 66 years old.

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