Premiere: Dave Barnes' really 'Good' video

• %22Good%22 appears on Dave Barnes%27 new album%2C %22Golden Days%2C%22 released in January
• The clip intersperses performance footage with home movies from Barnes%27 life
• Barnes wrote %22God Gave Me You%2C%22 a hit both for him and country singer Blake Shelton

Dave Barnes is set for Valentine's Day. "I've got all I'll ever need," he sings in Good. "A wife, a home, a family. And I thank God for all those answered prayers."

Just as Barnes reflects on his life and good fortune in the song, the video, which premieres at USA TODAY, parallels the story.

"A few years ago, my dad converted all of our home movies to DVD," says the Nashville singer-songwriter best known for his 2010 hit God Gave Me You, later covered by country singer Blake Shelton. When Barnes remembered the DVDs, he called director Jeff Venable and suggested incorporating that footage into the song's video.

"Jami Crockett, who works at my management office, spent two days poring over home videos of me," Barnes says. "If you want to know someone who has power in my life now, she has the keys to the kingdom. She would take screenshots and email them to me, and it would take me to dark, dark places.

The footage in the video includes Barnes performing in a garage band, doing his best Pumping Up with Hans and Franz imitation and getting married. However, he says, "it's not just the story of my life. They did a good job of using my sister and brother and parents. Hopefully, it doesn't feel to self-serving."

Barnes says Good, which appears on his eighth studio album Golden Days, released in January, was a song "that wasn't in the running, or really even finished, until right before we recorded the album." A fellow songwriter heard a fragment of the song and insisted Barnes complete it and include it on his album.

"I finished the song a couple days later, and I was so thankful," Barnes says. "Every time I see him, I give him a big side hug."

Like many songwriters, Barnes finds songs like Good that express happiness and contentment can be more challenging to write than ones that come from a place of pain or dissatisfaction.

"You don't want to sound like, 'Look at my life, isn't everything great?'" he says. "I think I was able to make Good personal, but hopeful not so personal that the bridge is my address in Nashville."

By the way, if you like Good, you can download it for free from NoiseTrade as part of a sampler of some of Barnes' best love songs the site is offering as a Valentine's Day special. There's also a behind-the-scenes video at YouTube.