“It’s hard to watch a friend face down their demons in front of you and come off second best”: The doomed blues hotshot who blew away Bono and toured with Dylan – but ran from fame and died in obscurity

Chris Whitley posing for a photograph in 1995.

Chris Whitley was one the great lost stars of the 1990s, channelling blues, country music and otherworldly Americana before his life was cut short at the age of just 45. In 2014, Classic Rock looked back at the life and death of a man who should have been better known than he was.