This CD doesn't come with a campfire, but it might as well. "Here's one I wrote for my kids," says Kris Kristofferson, introducing "From Here to Forever," one of a dozen fine songs on his 15th studio release. As the album title suggests, the scale is intimate — confessions and metaphysical ruminations, delivered in a weathered rumble, punctuated by the sound of harmonica and fingers scraping on fretboards. Songs like "Starlight and Stone" approach old age (he's 73) with a wry smile and resignation that borders on religiosity: "The road never ends," he sings, "and the soul never dies."