 This new instrument was met with great enthusiasm and taken up by others including the Bishop J.R. Lockley.The three toured together and later Willie put the new style down on record, recording a total of eighteen sides in the 1940s and 50s.Since then, Sacred Steel has grown and flourished within the Keith and Jewell Dominions in churches in at least 22 states, including Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina and Tennessee.