On Saturday evening I opened up Instagram and saw that James Swanberg* of Today's Hits and the Lemons had commented on my photo of the J-card from the Lemons' debut, Hello, We're the Lemons; he'd posted a link to "Corn Dog From the Tastee-Freez," a song he made for me after I purchased the cassette at Bric-a-Brac Records the previous weekend. The tune is one of a few personalized ditties Swanberg made for people who recently purchased Hello, We're the Lemons at Bric-a-Brac, a promotion Swanberg thought up a few weeks ago, after the Lemons found out they were close to becoming the Logan Square store's best-selling artist in any format.…
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