Sheila E’s gone country to help inspire women…

The 64-year-old Mexican American percussionist and singer appears on LeAnn Rimes’ empowering new single “The Wild,” featuring Mickey Guyton.

Considered one of Rimes’ most unvarnished, important musical releases to date, the track features the trio of musicians firing back at centuries of persecution against women.

Penned by Rimes and her longtime collaborator Darrell Brown, haunting chants and sharp percussion flow around lyrical firebombs as potent as their illustrious voices, on lines such as “The persecution of the woman, the burning has gone on for too f–king long,” and the pointed, “We’ve been told that our sex is ungodly, and we’ve been told that our rage is too much/ But when rage burns through our heart…it restokes the fire that changes the world.”

“The song is about the patriarchal world that has shaped us as a society, especially women,” Rimes says in a statement. “The silencing and fracturing of ourselves in order to fit into the pretty and polite societal box, throughout generations. It’s a battle cry to unite women to reclaim every part of our truest nature and no longer allow our wild, our ‘unholy’ to be ignored, shamed and rejected.

“It’s full of rage,” she continues. “The kind of rage that calls us home. Rage that ignites change and says, ‘I have been here all along, waiting for you to return to your wholeness.'”

“The wild” marks the fifth release from Rimes’ upcoming album, god’s work, due out on September 16.