Den Titel "The Sick Bag Song" muss man wörtlich nehmen: Nick Cave hat den Text während einer Reise durch die USA auf Spucktüten aus Flugzeugen geschrieben. Er beschreibt seine Erlebnisse im heutigen Amerika, die Begegnungen, Eindrücke und Inspirationen seiner Reise im Jahre 2014. Somewhere between "The Wasteland" and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", this book is a hellhound road trip into the American soul. The first book from Nick Cave in six years.

Nick Cave has been performing music for more than forty years and is best known as the songwriter and lead singer of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, whose latest album Ghosteen was widely received as their best work ever. Cave's body of work also covers a wider range of media and modes of expression including film score composition and writing of novels. His recent Conversations events and Red Hand Files website have seen Cave exploring deeper and more direct relationships with his fans.