TUSCUMBIA — The irony didn’t escape Rodney Hall that a week before the premiere of a documentary focusing on the early days of the Muscle Shoals sound, the facility created to honor the state’s musical achievers is “dead in the water.”

Hall, the chairman of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame Board of Directors, said Friday the facility is closed and the electricity has been shut off.

“The hall of fame has been unable to reopen after the Christmas holidays and we are financially strapped,” Hall said. “We’ve had several deals we’d been working on that for whatever reason, have gone south on us.”

Hall said the executive director continues to pursue funding options, but he could not say when the hall of fame might reopen.