Jack Pound was born and raised in the Moss Side district of Manchester. He dropped out of school at the age of 14 and worked as a barrow boy before joining the Royal Navy as a Ship's Writer. This career was curtailed following an accident at sea which saw him invalided out of the service.
Travelling widely throughout Europe, Scandinavia and North America, he worked at a variety of jobs, at the same time developing his skills of communication through music. Over the past two decades he has been a regular visitor to the Caribbean. All these experiences reflect in his writing and playing. As John Rice of South East Arts says: "Jack Pound is well known for his tireless and multitudinous careers as musician, cabaret entrepreneur, jobbing builder, local man about town, and on occasion, though hard to credit, a lifeguard..... A highly skilled guitarist and songwriter, his bluesy, often quirky style is particularly appreciated by discerning literary audiences ..whilst the rest of us just enjoy the music" .

In the early eighties Jack co- founded and hosted Oscar's Casual Cabaret in Camden Town, a comedy and new wave variety club where many of today's celebrities first cut their showbiz teeth. He left London in the mid eighties to live in Sandgate on the channel coast of Kent where he married long time partner Cathy and raised a family.
In 1998 after a lengthy absence from the music scene he collaborated with fellow writer Clive Gardner and recorded and released an acoustic roots music album aptly titled - Low Profile. Described by Belgium's Radio Centraal DJ Psyche Van Het as :- "A wonderful collection of songs, one of the best and varied of singer/songwriter records." Andy Cheyne writing in Folk Roots magazine described it as:- "...Somewhere in the manic territory inhabited by Napolean X1V and the legendary Stardust Cowboy."
In 1999 a collaboration with Hastings based musician Colin Gibson' resulted in an experimental album "Domestic Bliss" released under the name of Guano Poundhammer. Produced at his remote studio by fabled Colombian record producer Arthur 'Bird' Guano, the wide-ranging CD also featured renegade bluesman Cole Hammer on Lexicon, and is slowly acquiring cult status. Mancunian music critic Phil Wright described it thus..........boasting an impressively broad stylistic range - from bar room blues to electronica, absurdest comic vignettes to film noire atmospherics -"Domestic Bliss" loosely chronicles the souring of a passionate love affair into grotesque banality and mutual loathing. Underpinning this narrative is Jack Pound's rich bluesy voice floating smoothly over Colin Gibson's insistent, hypnotic beats.

In February 2000 Jack re-released his 1989 Album "Low Pool Music" on CD. Colin Irwin writing for Melody Maker at the time wrote:- His astonishingly individual style stretches across all manner of parameters. On first release the collection received encouraging critique from the likes of World Music Broadcaster Charlie Gillett and received airplay in the U.K, The Caribbean and Canada. DJ Starsky - Barbados Rebel Rouser, describes