The sound features in the track Tumbleweed on Mr Urban's album Speed of Now Part 1.

Mr Burns, who has been playing the didgeridoo since the age of 13, and now creates and sells the Indigenous instrument, says the opportunity came as a surprise.

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"I got an email one day that said, 'Keith's found your music on YouTube, downloaded it and mixed it in with one of his songs. We're writing to you to ask to see if we can release it?'," he said.

Talking to the Washington Post, Keith Urban said in his song Tumbleweed there were four seconds of a breakdown after a guitar solo, which is when he thought a didgeridoo sound would be perfect.

"My engineer is like, 'Didgeri-what? ... I've never heard one'.

"We jump online and I find a guy playing the didgeridoo. And it turns out to be this guy, Lewis Burns," Mr Urban told the Washington Post.

"And then in the midst of it, I went, 'actually, can we use that?'."

For Mr Burns an Indigenous sound featuring in an international star's album was important and just one step toward the survival of First Nations culture.

"It's set a precedent, and now, he's one of the biggest stars in the states, so it will make other people think about it," Mr Burns said.

The instrument, known as a yidaki, originated in the Northern Territory and was given the non-Indigenous name didgeridoo, which came from a rhythm heard at a corroboree.

"A lot of people don't understand the background around it," he said.

"There's a lot of songs that can be played that people can understand, there's rhythm that is played that dances follow, I mean there's a whole language in there in the didgeridoo."

Mr Burns said he was gifted his first didgeridoo by his father, and said inspiration for playing and later making the instrument came from a desire to help showcase Indigenous culture and pass on the baton for future generations.

"When I started it, people laughed at the didgeridoo and said 'why would you want to make one of those for?', well because I want to keep my culture alive," he said.

"I feel like its working, because there's a lot of people out there that I've worked with and taught that are now self-employed or creating weapons, tools and songs. They're out there living the culture too now, and I feel like I had something to do with it."

As the owner of the Red Earth Gallery, Mr Burns said it takes him about a day and a half to two days to make the instrument.

"There's quite a lot involved," he said.

"You have to find a hollow tree that's the right size, then you have to cut it, treat it, strip it, then treat the outside, then decorate it and then finish it off, put in a mouth piece."

It was announced Keith Urban would be touring Australia in December 2021 and Mr Burns said he would certainly join if asked.