(7 September 1968 - December 1971) (divorced)
Mimi Fariña (the petite sister of folk-singer Joan Baez), married her second husband, Milan Melvin, on the morning of the opening day of the 1968 Big Sur Folk Festival, which was held on the grounds of the Esalen Institute.
Milan was a producer at Mercury Records and a radio announcer for KSAN-FM. He was tall and gaunt, almost Abraham-Lincoln-like, with long black hair. Before meeting Mimi, he had been in a relationship with Janis Joplin.
The connection with Janis apparently caused some bad blood between the two singers. Mimi also began to hang out with some of Janis' friends, including Linda Gravenites, a designer who roomed with Janis and also made dresses for Janis' stage act. The last straw, for Janis, came when Mimi asked Linda Gravenites to make her wedding dress. Linda created the appliqué with a beaded lace train that is seen in all the photos of Mimi's wedding with Milan.
Sweet Sir Galahad is a song written by Joan Baez, which she famously performed at Woodstock in 1969;
The song tells the story of Baez' younger sister Mimi Fariña and her second marriage to Milan after the
1966 death of Fariña's first husband, novelist and singer-songwriter Richard Fariña. Baez was inspired to write the song, after hearing of Melvin's courtship of Mimi, during which he came into her bedroom at night through the window.
It has since become one of Baez's most well-known compositions.